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The hottest stars in the region, called the Trapezium cluster, are bright spots at center right.
Image Gallery 2010
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Like previous images taken of the region in visible light, the center of the new picture shows the four hot, young stars known as the Trapezium, which blast ultraviolet light into surrounding space and set the Orion region aglow.
Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews 2010
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Like previous images taken of the region in visible light, the center of the new picture shows the four hot, young stars known as the Trapezium, which blast ultraviolet light into surrounding space and set the Orion region aglow.
Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews Science News 2010
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February 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The constellation of Orion the Hunter swaddles a cluster of newborn stars called the Trapezium, each of them as dazzling as
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer have released images of a double star in the Orion Nebula's Trapezium and an expanding shell of gas around another star, T Leporis.
Archive 2009-02-25 Nicole 2009
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Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer have released images of a double star in the Orion Nebula's Trapezium and an expanding shell of gas around another star, T Leporis.
First Stellar Images Nicole 2009
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Back then he would go into a trance when Jenny gave voice to the elegant geometry of the constellations, to the sound of words like Trapezium, the star cluster deep inside the Orion Nebula, the dim edge of the sword falling below The Hunter's Belt.
Traces in the Winter Sky Doug Bond 2011
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Here the fierce ultraviolet light from the Trapezium is sculpting the gas clouds into curious wavy shapes.
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The Trapezium was awesome too – E and F were bright and steady – better than the other 4 usually are in my 10.
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They could easily locate the Trapezium, the four brilliant stars knit by a common gravity in whose embrace you would find that notorious Bok Gobule — the star-birthing gas cloud with a vague resemblance to a set of male human genitalia.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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