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Orion, exact phrase.
Proplyds in Orion
Here you see a pair of protoplanetary discs ('proplyds' for short) forming inside the
vast star factory known as the Orion Nebula. The
Hubble Space Telescope actually photographed these objects, which will one day become
stars and, perhaps, planetary...
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Orion, protoplanetary, disc, formation...
Blue Giant Star
This classic space art example was commissioned for one of my recent books, Cosmic
Menagerie: A Visual Journey Through the Universe. It imagines the view from the
surface of a rocky world orbiting a blue giant star. These, such as Rigel in Orion, hav...
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blue giant, star, landscape, exoplanet, surface...
Journey to the Milky Way
... e clip. Practically every star you can see in the night sky is contained within
this dot. The yellow line, meanwhile, is the Orion
arm, which is our local spiral arm. Actually it's a minor arm, a fragment rather than
a complete structure. Please lik ...
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galaxy, Milky Way, barred spiral, animation...
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