O-Types: Death Stars In Orion Blast Proplyds To Dust

There's a cosmic war happening between highly luminous O-type stars and nearby protostars in the Orion Nebula . The Orion Nebula is home to hundreds of young stars and even younger protostars known as proplyds. Many of these nascent systems will go on to develop planets, while others will have their planet-forming dust and gas blasted away by the fierce ultraviolet radiation emitted by massive O-type stars that lurk nearby. read more

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