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Rebecca J. Rosen - Rebecca J. Rosen is an associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section.

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Picture of the Day: Stars Near Orion's Sword

By Rebecca J. Rosen

Oct 18 2011, 7:09 AM ET Comment

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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope grabbed this image of the protostars forming near the sword of the constellation Orion, the bright area at the picture's center. Some of these stars will some day be like the sun, some even larger.

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech.


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