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Becklin-Neugebauer object

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…sources yet discovered, the so-called Becklin–Neugebauer object. Located in a giant molecular cloud behind the Orion Nebula, it radiates very intensely in the infrared but scarcely at all in the optical. Many investigators hypothesize that the object is an incipient massive star.
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