Tag: Great Nebula of Orion
Flower of Orion
by CritterKeeper on Feb.11, 2010, under Plants/Flowers
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Explore the folds and petals of the Orion Nebula in this dramatic new image from ESO’s VISTA survey telescope. VISTA’s infrared vision allows to deeply into this well-known nebula showing young active stars and regions of warm gas. As we peer through a telescope at the Orion Nebula, we see only a small part of the light streaming to us. The infrared sensors on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and VISTA show a much larger complex of gas and dust, all material for new stars to form.
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