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Star’s Birth May Have Triggered Another Star Birth

Protostar FIR 3 (HOPS 370) with outflow that may have triggered the formation of younger protostar FIR 4 (HOPS 108), in the Orion star-forming region. Pullouts are individual VLA images of each protostar. (au = astronomical unit, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, about 93 million miles.)

Credit: Osorio et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF.

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