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The Orion Nebula may be a familiar and well-studied celestial object, but new images from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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PDRs4All pointed Webb toward the Orion Bar, deep within the famous Orion Nebula, and collected a treasure trove of images and spectroscopic data. The main goal of the program is to unveil the ...

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The Orion Nebula can be found in the sword of the Orion constellation. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand and J. Major The Orion Nebula ...

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This magnificent swirl of gas is made luminous by the ultraviolet radiation of hot young stars that are embedded in it. Its motions indicate that it may have begun to shine only some 23,000 years ago ...

But nobody had detected the molecule beyond our solar system until scientists $4 at a young star system in the Orion Nebula, a giant star-forming region located 1,350 light-years from Earth.

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