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Sep 11, 2019 · This visualization explores the Orion Nebula as seen in visible-light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. This movie is designed to be compared and contrasted against the companion movie using infrared-light observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope. As the camera flies into the star-forming region, it reveals a glowing gaseous ...
@NRAOEPO astronomer Brian Mason discusses the discovery of uncommonly large dust grains near the Orion Nebula which may kick-start planet formation.Discover...
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This visualization explores the Orion Nebula using both visible and infrared light. The sequence begins with a wide-field view of the sky showing the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, then zooms down to the scale of the Orion Nebula. The visible light observation (from the Hubble Space Telescope) and the infrared light observation (from the Spitzer Sp...
VIDEO:NASA, ESA, Frank Summers (STScI), Greg T. Bacon (STScI), Zolt G. Levay (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI), Lisa Frattare (STScI), Massimo Robberto (STScI), Mario Gennaro (STScI), Robert L. Hurt (IPAC), Martin Kornmesser (ESA), Akira Fujii ACKNOWLEDGMENT:Robert Gendler MUSIC:The Advent Chamber Orchestra
Jan 15, 2018 · This visualisation explores the Orion Nebula as seen in visible light observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This video is designed to be compared and contrasted against the companion movie using infrared light observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope. As the camera flies into the star-forming region, it reveals a glowing ...
The bright glow at upper left is from M43, a small region being shaped by a massive, young star's ultraviolet light. Astronomers call the region a miniature Orion Nebula because only one star is sculpting the landscape. The Orion Nebula has four such stars. Next to M43 are dense, dark pillars of dust and gas that point toward the Trapezium.
The Orion Nebula offers one of the best opportunities to study how stars are born partly because it is the nearest large star-forming region, but also because the nebula's energetic stars have blown away obscuring gas and dust clouds that would otherwise block our view - providing an intimate look at a range of ongoing stages of starbirth and evolution.
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Jan 11, 2006 · The Orion Nebula is a perfect laboratory to study how stars are born because it is 1,500 light-years away, a relatively short distance within our 100,000 light-year wide galaxy. Astronomers have a clear view into this crowded stellar maternity ward because massive stars in the centre of the nebula have blown out most of the dust and gas in which they formed, carving a cavity in the dark cloud.
