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Gas in the Orion A cloud star-forming region. Each of the three colors (red, green and blue) represents a different velocity range. Credit: NSF/S. Kong, J. Feddersen, H. Arce & CARMA-NRO Orion Survey team

A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast seedbed of stars similar to Earth’s Sun. The maps provide unprecedented detail of the structure of the Orion A molecular cloud, the closest star-forming region of high-mass stars. Orion A hosts a variety of star-forming environments, including dense star clusters similar to the one where Earth’s Sun is believed to have formed...