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 Credit: NASA/ESA and L. Ricci (ESO)
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 Ever looked through the window of a hospital nursery full of newborn babies?  You may have noticed that the babies are wrapped in warm fleecy blankets.

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−	If it's clear outside, you can see the Orion Nebula during the winter and early spring.	+	If it's clear outside, you can see the Orion Nebula during the winter and early spring. You can use binoculars or a telescope to see the clouds of dust and gas.

	Thanks to the Night Sky Network.		Thanks to the Night Sky Network.

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	Ever looked through the window of a hospital nursery full of newborn babies? You may have noticed that the babies are wrapped in warm fleecy blankets.		Ever looked through the window of a hospital nursery full of newborn babies? You may have noticed that the babies are wrapped in warm fleecy blankets.
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 Ever looked through the window of a hospital nursery full of newborn babies?  You may have noticed that the babies are wrapped in warm fleecy blankets.
 [[File:baby.jpg|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]
 Ever looked through the window of a nursery full of newborn stars?  In the constellation of Orion, the hazy area in the sword of Orion is an opening into a huge cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being born, called the Orion Nebula.
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 But these blankets aren’t there to keep the stars warm.  These blankets of gas and dust can, in a few million years, develop into planets that orbit around the stars.
 Our star, the Sun, was born in a nursery similar to the Orion Nebula about five billion years ago.  The infant Sun, too, was likely wrapped in a dusty blanket that transformed into the planets, including Earth, which now orbit our Sun.
-[[File:M42.jpeg|300px|thumb|right|Orion Stellar Nursery]]
 If it's clear outside, you can see the Orion Nebula during the winter and early spring.
 Thanks to the Night Sky Network.

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 Ever looked through the window of a hospital nursery full of newborn babies?  You may have noticed that the babies are wrapped in warm fleecy blankets.
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 Ever looked through the window of a nursery full of newborn stars?  In the constellation of Orion, the hazy area in the sword of Orion is an opening into a huge cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being born, called the Orion Nebula.

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 '''Newborn stars in the Orion Nebula wrapped in dusty blankets.'''
 Credit: NASA/ESA and L. Ricci (ESO)

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	Credit: NASA/ESA and L. Ricci (ESO)		Credit: NASA/ESA and L. Ricci (ESO)