Visuals: Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals

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ssc2009-11a: Seeing Crystals Form Around a Young Star
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/P. Ábrahám (Konkoly Obs., Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

ssc2009-11b: Silicate Crystal Formation in the Disk of an Erupting Star
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)

ssc2009-11v1: Silicate Crystal Formation in the Disk of an Erupting Star
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)

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