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Explosive disintegration of a massive young stellar system in Orion

Image Credit: Y. C. Tsai/ASIAA

Artist's conception of molecular outflow from a massive young stellar system in Orion

In the central area there is a stellar system of three stars. The interaction between the members of the system may have triggered an explosive outflow. Some forty emission filaments exited from the center, flowing out in all directions.