The Orion Nebula

Hubble Space Telescope

Painted

2006

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NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope

The star-forming cloud just visible to the naked eye below Orion's belt, the nearest large stellar nursery to Earth. Hubble's mosaic of 520 exposures contains more than three thousand newborn stars and discs where planets are forming. The four bright stars at the centre are the Trapezium.

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