Chandra X-ray Image of Orion Nebula, Full-Field (2005-orion-more-1 - orion 2panel)

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Chandra X-ray Image of Orion Nebula, Full-Field This is a deep image of the Orion Nebula Nebula Cluster made by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, containing over 1,600 X-ray sources. About 1,400 of these sources are young stars in the Orion Nebula Nebula and the rest are either background galaxies or foreground stars. The red X-ray sources are mostly young stars in Orion Nebula with little absorption by intervening gas and the blue X-ray sources are mostly young stars with larger amounts of gas absorption. The luminous source in the middle of the cluster, Theta Orion Nebulais C, is the brightest