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Image title	Stellar explosions are most often associated with supernovae, the spectacular deaths of stars. But new ALMA observations of the Orion Nebula complex provide insights into explosions at the other end of the stellar life cycle, star birth. Astronomers captured these dramatic images of the remains of a 500-year-old explosion as they explored the firework-like debris from the birth of a group of massive stars, demonstrating that star formation can be a violent and explosive process too. The background image includes optical and near-infrared imaging from both the Gemini South and ESO Very Large Telescope. The famous Trapezium Cluster of hot young stars appears towards the bottom of this image. The ALMA data do not cover the full image shown here.
Credit/Provider	ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally/H. Drass et al.
Source	European Southern Observatory
Short title	ALMA views a stellar explosion in Orion
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Date and time of data generation	15:00, 7 April 2017
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Macintosh)
File change date and time	14:24, 4 April 2017
Unique ID of original document	C9886C151FEA7FB59E5E40A8841CA6E0
Date and time of digitizing	06:42, 16 March 2017
Date metadata was last modified	16:24, 4 April 2017
Keywords	OMC Orion Molecular Cloud
Contact information	http://www.eso.org Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany
IIM version	4