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Happy Thanksgiving holiday to those who celebrate it, and happy Thursday to all space fans! In honor of our holiday, we plucked a beautiful Hubble image — because what does a turkey say? "Hubble Hubble" (had to do it.) With its helical appearance resembling a snail’s shell, this reflection nebula seems to spiral out from a luminous central star in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The star in the center, known as V1331 Cyg and located in the dark cloud LDN 981 — had previously been defined as a T Tauri star. A T Tauri is a young star — or Young Stellar Object — that is starting to contract to become a main sequence star similar to the sun. What makes this star special is the fact that we look almost exactly at one of its poles. Usually, the view of a young star is obscured by the dust from the circumstellar disc and the envelope that surround it. Here, we are actually looking in the exact direction of a jet driven by the star that is clearing the dust and giving us this mag...

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