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03 Apr, 2008

An X-Ray Santa Claus in Orion

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Right in time for the festive season, ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has discovered a huge cloud of high-temperature gas resting in a spectacular nearby star-forming region, shaped somewhat like the silhouette of Santa Claus.

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