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434 244 6812 (office)
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jstoke at nrao.edu
434-244-6896 (office)
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Data from the Very Large Array, Green Bank Telescope, and the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) satellite reveal an enormous, nearly empty bubble blown into the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy by the force of the stellar wind and radiation from hot, massive stars and the explosive impact of dying stars (Credit: NRAO/AUI, J. English, J. Stil, R. Taylor, and MSX).
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