AE Aurigae

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HOME ONCE the Orion Nebula regionNOW lighting the Flaming Star Nebula

A runaway star that happens to be passing through a random cloud of gas, setting it aglow as the Flaming Star Nebula. The cloud is not its home, just scenery along its escape route. Millions of years ago a close gravitational tangle in the Orion region flung AE Aurigae out; the nebula it brightens is a stranger it met on the road.

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