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This celestial cloudscape captures the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505.

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But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side, formed by its lanes and clouds of dust. They frequently avoid scrutiny, as the surrounding brightness tends to steal the show.

Some 1,350 light-years from Earth, astronomers detected strange pairs of unexplained objects orbiting in the Orion Nebula. Since then, about 12 months ago, other scientists have proposed a new ...

Within the Orion Nebula lies the Orion Bar, a sharp, diagonal, ridge-like feature of gas and dust. The Orion Bar is essentially the edge of an astronomically large bubble carved out by some of the ...