Large-scale structures are also visible, such as large clouds of dust and gas where stars are forming at rapid rates.

MSN: New Milky Way photo captures 1 billion stars

And, by reducing the power of their lasers while the condensate was forming, they allowed rapid evaporative cooling.

ECONOMIST: A new way has been devised to make a peculiar form of matter

In the face of these attacks, scientists are doing more to speak out, forming a Climate Science Rapid Response Team to connect scientists with journalists and a Climate Science Legal Defense Fund to help scientists defray legal costs.

CNN: Climate scientists and smear campaigns

At a distance of about 400 million light-years, NGC 6240 is a prime example of a massive galaxy in which stars are forming at an exceptionally rapid rate due to a recent collision and subsequent merger of two smaller galaxies.

BBC: Black holes on collision course

Dr. THOMMES: Well, the violent one, which we think is the more common version, is - you basically have sort of a rapid succession of giant planets forming.

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