Posts Tagged ‘VISTA’

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.

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