[5] This means that researchers can study star formation that is happening in a very different environment when compared to the Orion Nebula.

[4] About 50% of the YSOs in Lynds 1641 have circumstellar disks[6] of which many were directly imaged with ALMA.

[7] Many of the directly imaged disks of other stars appearing in news coverage are in much closer star-forming regions, such as the Scorpius-Centaurus association.

The disks will appear much smaller in ALMA images because of the 4 times larger distance compared to such a region.

[8] Gaia data has shown that the stars of Orion A follow a trend towards a closer distance at the northern part of the dark cloud.