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Orion's core

Badr, taken from San Jose, Bradley, and Death Valley; California The Trapezium Cluster at the heart of the Orion Nebula (M42) ...
At the center of ORION is a 'trapezoidal' star cluster made up of four bright stars. In this small space with a radius of about 1.5 light-years (a light-year is the distance light travels in one year, ...
image: Left: Zooming into the center of the Orion star-forming region with the four bright Trapezium stars (Theta1 Orionis A-D). The dominant star is Theta1 Orionis C, which was imaged with ...