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A Merger Solves a Puzzling Paradox in Orion

· universetoday.com · popularity 26/100 · 0 similar stories today · Space & Astronomy (Space & Astronomy)

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Summary

Some of the Hubble Space Telescope's earliest observations were of the Orion Nebula. Those images showed proplyds, and subsequent observations uncovered a paradox centered on them. Given their rate of mass loss, those disks should have been destroyed long ago. Why weren't they?

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