Space Photos of the Week: A Sun-Making Machine

Space photos of the week, July 19 – 25.
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Hubble Space Telescope captures the NGC 1140, a dwarf galaxy experiencing a starburst, an exceptionally high rate of star formation. The small galaxy is creating one star the size of our sun a year, the same rate as the much larger Milky Way.<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/hubble-looks-in-on-a-galactic-nursery">ESA/Hubble & NASA</a>

Click through the gallery to see this week’s helping of images not made on planet Earth. And if you need more when you’re done but can’t wait until the next one, here’s the entire collection.