Thru an avid captivation with astronomy, Jordan Perzik collaborates with Los Angeles astronomers and devotes many hours at local observatories, investigating such inscrutabilities of the cosmos as the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
Located in the constellation Orion, the Orion Molecular Cloud is comprised of nebulae, cold dust clouds, and hot stars still in their youth. Hundreds of light-years across, this astronomical melting pot glows orange with the dim light from interstellar dust. At a distance of 1,350 light-years from Earth, the Orion Molecular Cloud defies human sight, but the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile has observed the phenomenon. The interstellar dust that gives the clouds their orange hue contains the building blocks of stars. The infinitesimal grains also conceal whatever lies within the clouds and beyond them. An observation deeper into the Orion Molecular Cloud would reveal the formation of stars.