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Baby stars ‘burp’ in Orion Nebula after frantic feeding sessions

Infant stars in the Orion Nebula are emitting bright bursts of radiation as they frantically feed on gas and dust to grow.

The surprisingly frequent feeding frenzies of the newborn stars or ‘protostars’ in the Orion Nebula, the closest star-forming region to Earth, were revealed by data from NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope

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