Sunny Priyan
A thin sheet of gas is located at the edge of the famous "Great Nebula" in Orion, an estimated 1500 light years from Earth.
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This emission is strongest under conditions which are intermediate between those in the interior of nebula and those in the dense cloud.
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The sulfur emission is seen to break into filamentary and clumpy structures with sizes down to the limit of what the telescope can show.
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The Orion Nebula is a "stellar nursery" - a region where new stars are forming out of interstellar gas.
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The Orion Nebula is a "stellar nursery" - a region where new stars are forming out of interstellar gas.
Image Credit: Freepik
This is the very cloud from which the hot stars are formed and is known to harbor additional ongoing star formation.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI