You are an astronomy graduate student and you are observing the big Orion Nebula from an airplane that has a good-sized infrared telescope built into it (there really is such a plane.) On an infrared image of the Nebula, what would particularly stand out?

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Infrared imaging is particularly effective at revealing areas with a lot of dust, as infrared light can penetrate dust clouds that would otherwise obscure objects from view in the visible spectrum. In the context of observing the Orion Nebula, which is a region filled with dust and gas, infrared imaging would make the dusty clouds within the nebula stand out.

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