Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered many “infant” or new stars forming in the area of the head of Orion (the Hunter) located about 1,200 light-years away. Astronomers believe shockwaves from a supernova explosion of a massive star 3 million years ago may have triggered the formation of the new stars. The image from Spitzer shows high and low mass stars, brown dwarfs, and a dark dust cloud. The top of the cloud shows very young stars embedded in a cocoon of gas and dust.