Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars

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Packed into the center of this region are bright lights of the Trapezium stars, the four heftiest stars in the Orion Nebula. Ultraviolet light unleashed by these stars is carving a cavity in the nebula and disrupting the growth of hundreds of smaller stars. The dark speck near the bottom, right of the image is a silhouette of an edge-on disk encircling a young star. Another whitish-looking disk is visible near the bottom, left, just above the two bright stars. This disk is encased in a bubble of gas and dust.

Object Names: Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976

Image Type: Astronomical

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

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The above image is part of a montage:

Montage Image: Close-Up Images of the Orion Nebula Image Type: Astronomical PRC2006-01b

Orion in Miniature Image Type: Astronomical

Pillars of Gas Image Type: Astronomical

Sculpting the Landscape Image Type: Astronomical

Over the Edge Image Type: Astronomical

Failing Stars Image Type: Astronomical

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