Glorious Orion: Chaotic And Overcrowded Stellar Nursery
Sunday, April 19, 2009 - 21:14
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have completed the most wide-ranging census ever produced of dynamical star formation in and around the well-known Great Nebula of Orion. They have found this stellar nursery to be a lively and somewhat overcrowded place, with young stars emitting gas jets in all directions, creating quite a chaotic picture and demonstrating there is much more going on in Orion than previously thought.