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Artist's conception of a protoplanetary disk
Hubble image of protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula, a light-years-wide "stellar nursery" likely very similar to the primordial nebula from which our Sun formed.
Artist's conception of the future evolution of our Sun. Left: main sequence; middle: red giant; right: white dwarf