That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

LBN 483 is particularly interesting in that it does not seem to be part of a larger star-forming region like the Orion Nebula, and so as an isolated spot of starbirth it may operate on slightly ...

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This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula: Believed to be the ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula. A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of ...