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Sculpting Landscapes in Orion and De Mairan's Nebulae | Hubble

Sculpting Landscapes in Orion and De Mairan's Nebulae | Hubble

This glowing region of star formation reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds—streams of charged particles ejected by the Trapezium star cluster—collide with material in the Orion and De Mairan's Nebulae.

Distance: 1,400 light years


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

Release Date: Jan. 11, 2006


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