Posts Tagged ‘Orion Nebula’
Orion Thunderbird
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stauffer (SSC/Caltech)
A thunderbird lurks in the dreamy clouds of the Great Nebula in Orion. Also a colony of hot, young stars shines their way through the enveloping folds of dust and gas.
Flower of Orion
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.
Wonders in Orion
Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
The Great Nebula in Orion, shown in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, is a place of wonder. The nebula, also known as M42, shows flowers in gas, giant pillars of dust and massive stars. Strong winds from massive stars found in the center of the nebula carved out a great cavity in the nebula.
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