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X-Ray Orion

"When our middle-aged Sun was just a few million years old it was thousands of times brighter in x-rays. In fact, it was likely similar to some of the stars found in this false-color X-ray composite of the Orion Nebula region from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The image is centered on bright stars of the nebula's Trapezium star cluster..."
orion trapezium