ESO’s HAWK-I infrared instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has captured a deeper view of the Orion Nebula’s core. Looking like an interstellar Frisbee, the dark feature in these two ...

Easily visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude of 4. , where new stars are being born from the gas and dust. The intense ...

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The background image, taken in the infrared, is itself a composite ... A kind of super-massive version of the Orion Nebula, it’s is one hundred times larger and the biggest star-forming region ...

Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a ...

Meanwhile, Spitzer’s infrared view exposes carbon-rich molecules ... Studying areas like this, and the Orion Nebula, in particular, has offered scientists some powerful insights into the forces ...

"Based on the amount of infrared versus other wavelengths of ... as it plows into the surrounding gas and dust of the Orion Nebula." HOPS 153's jet and surrounding environment will continue ...

The Orion Nebula. Credit: NASA ... The JWST makes its most important observations in the infrared, which human eyes can't see ...