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If you mess with Twister, you mess with his family. This whirling space tornado is some 3 billion miles (5 trillion km) long and is born from extremes of hot and cold inside his mother, Lagoon Nebula. She’s an interstellar cloud of gas, dust, and plasma and a nursery for new stars. Plasma blasting out from these baby stars sometimes creates massive stellar jets—shock waves that can travel light-years.

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neutron star Neutron was born during a supernova explosion. Although small—just 10 miles (16 km) across— he’s the most dense object in the universe. Don’t pick a fight with this heavyweight, as a heaped teaspoon of Neutron-Star material weighs about 110 million tons (100 million tonnes), the same as a mountain! dark matTer All of the galaxies, stars, gas, planets, and people combined make up only four percent of the

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