LAUNCH PAD
Jan 28, 2021
3 minutes
New view of the Hunter’s nebula
Looking like a vivid oil painting, this composite image shows an enormous cloud of gas and dust some 1,500 light years from Earth. You can see hydrogen, sulphur and hydrocarbons swirling around hundreds of young yet large stars in the Orion Nebula due to strong stellar winds. The effect appears to pepper this part of the Milky Way with gorgeous speckles of light.
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