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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the Orion Nebula, highlighting two young protostars, HOPS 150 and HOPS 153. These prot ...

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space ... Herschel, which viewed the heavens in infrared light, launched in May 2009 and ended its mission ...