Orion Nebula from Hubble space telescope  

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Image credit:NASA


The Orion Nebula offers one of the best opportunities to study how stars are born partly because it is the nearest large star-forming region, but also because the nebula's energetic stars have blown away obscuring gas and dust clouds that would otherwise block our view - providing an intimate look at a range of ongoing stages of starbirth and evolution...The Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team.

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