Thursday, February 14, 2013

APOD 3.3

This is a photo of LL Orionis interacting with the Orion Nebula Flow.  Very powerful winds are being produced and running into the slow moving gas and creating a shock front.  This shock front spans about half a light year across.  The gas from Orions Nebula is slowly flowing away from the very hot region of central star clusters.  The entire star nursery of Orion can be seen in the photo.

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