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  • How is Greenbelt’s NASA center guiding Hubble’s latest cosmic discovery?

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• NASA's Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets (harvard.edu) — NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt is managing operations for Hubble, which just captured the largest and one of the most chaotic planet-forming disks ever seen. The newly imaged “Dracula’s Chivito” system, about 1,000 light-years away, offers astronomers an unusually detailed look at how planets may form in extreme, turbulent environments.
   

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