Squabbles in star nurseries result in celestial fireworks
Images of streamers of gas and dust reveal power of explosive interactions
![composite image of stellar nursery](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/040617_AY_explosive-stellar-birth_main.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
STELLAR FIRECRACKER An interaction of young stars in Orion Molecular Core 1 ripped apart a stellar nursery, sending stars, gas and dust shooting into space. In this image — a composite of data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and the Gemini South telescope, both in Chile — gas moving quickly toward Earth is blue, while slower-moving gas is redder.
J. Bally; B. Saxton (NRAO, AUI, NSF), ALMA (ESO, NAOJ, NRAO); Gemini Observatory/AURA