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VIDEO: Take A Trip Through The Orion Nebula, A Baby Star Nursery

The constellation Orion is home to a busy, glowing nebula. Data from telescopes has been used to create a three-minute, three-dimensional tour around its colorful caverns and bright star clusters.
An artist's rendition of a star cluster in the Orion Nebula, using both visible-light and infrared-light visualizations.

You've seen the Orion Nebula before – but not like this.

It's part of the Orion constellation, easily visible from Earth: The bright center "star" in Orion's sword, located off Orion's belt, is actually an active nebula where new

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