Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

In which year did NASA released images of Orion Nebula images that confirm the births of planets around newborn stars?

  1. 1994

  2. 1995

  3. 2000

  4. 1996
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In 1994, NASA released Hubble Space Telescope images of the Orion Nebula (M42) that provided the first direct visual evidence of protoplanetary disks around young stars. These images, taken with the newly installed corrective optics, showed 'proplyds' - disks of dust and gas where planets are forming. This was a landmark discovery in planetary formation theory.

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