Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
The Orion Nebula from VLT
Explanation:
The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in the constellation of Orion [ http://www.astro.wi…constellations/Orion .html ]. But this image [ http://www.eso.org/…], a representative-color composite of 81 near-infrared light [ http://www.ipac.cal…] images taken with VLT's ISAAC [ http://www.eso.org/…], shows the Orion Nebula [ http://www-astronom…] to be a busy neighborhood of young stars, hot gas, and dark dust. The power behind much of the Orion Nebula [ http://www.seds.org…] (M42) is the Trapezium [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] - four of the brightest stars in the nebula. The eerie blue glow surrounding the bright stars pictured here is their own starlight reflected [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] by nearby dust [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Dark brown dust filaments [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] cover much of the region [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. The whole Orion Nebula [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] cloud complex, which includes [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] the Horsehead Nebula [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], will slowly disperse over the next 100,000 years.
Credit and Copyright:
Mark McCaughrean [ http://www.aip.de./~ mjm/ ] (AI Potsdam [ http://www.aip.de/]) et al., ISAAC [ http://www.eso.org/…], VLT ANTU [ http://www.eso.org/…], ESO [ http://www.eso.org/]
keyword:
Trapezium
keyword:
Orion Nebula
facet_where:
Ohio
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Orion
facet_what:
ESO
facet_what:
VLT
facet_what:
Very Large Telescope
facet_what:
nebula
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap010130

The Orion Nebula from VLT
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