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The Great Orion Nebula

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M42 the Great Orion Nebula

a massive stellar nursery

Huge molecular clouds of gas, mostly hydrogen (red) and dust (white),

are the raw materials from which stars are formed.

Many of the stars in this image were formed out of this cloud.