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Orion Nebula and Bow Shock

Orion Nebula and Bow Shock
Date taken Thu Dec 02 1999 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Orion Nebula · Hubble Space Telescope Metadata JSON

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Astronomers using NASA Hubble Space Telescope have found a bow shock around a very young star in the nearby Orion nebula, an intense star-forming region of gas and dust.