Using a giant natural telescope, astronomers have discovered a distant star factory where a new sun is being born every 10 hours. (sciencemag.org)
This spectacular new image is one of the largest near - infrared high - resolution mosaics of the Orion A molecular cloud, the nearest known massive star factory, lying about 1350 light - years from Earth. (sciencedaily.com)
Shortly after starting to form some 100,000 years ago, several protostars in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC - 1), a dense and active star factory about 1,400 light - years from Earth just behind the Orion Nebula, latched onto each other gravitationally and gradually drew closer together. (alma-telescope.jp)