Orion Nebula
NASA / ESA / M. Robberto, 2006
Close enough to see the gas glow. Dust, young stars, a cavity blown clear. Our own sun once looked like this from somewhere else. Some of those lights will outlive us. Some already died.
About this work
In January 2006 NASA and ESA released this Hubble Space Telescope mosaic of the Orion Nebula, one of the most detailed astronomical images made up to then. The survey took 105 Hubble orbits, with all of the telescope's imaging instruments working at once, and the Advanced Camera for Surveys mosaic covers an area of sky about the size of the full Moon. The Orion Nebula, also called Messier 42, is the middle "star" in the sword of Orion, south of Orion's Belt. It is bright enough to see with the naked eye and lies about 1,300 light-years away, which makes it the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. It is about 25 light-years across. At its heart is a very young cluster called the Trapezium, after its four brightest stars, whose radiation lights up the surrounding gas. Hubble first observed the nebula in 1993, and its images have since revealed protoplanetary disks around most of the newly formed stars there. The image is credited to NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team.
Sources: HubbleSite news release 2006-01 · Wikipedia: Orion Nebula
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