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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Infrared Light
Explanation: What would it look like to fly into the Orion Nebula? The exciting dynamic visualization of the Orion Nebula is based on real astronomical data and adept movie rendering techniques. Up close and personal with a famous stellar nursery normally seen from 1,500 light-years away, the digitally modeled representation based is based on infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope . The perspective moves along a valley over a light-year wide, in the wall of the region's giant molecular cloud . Orion's valley ends in a cavity carved by the energetic winds and radiation of the massive central stars of the Trapezium star cluster . The entire Orion Nebula spans about 40 light year s and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun .
| Date | July 7, 2021 |
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| Credit |
Video Credit: NASA , Spitzer Space Telescope , Universe of Learning ; Visualization: F. Summers ( STScI ) et al. ; Music & License: Serenade for Strings ( A. Dvořák ), Advent Chamber Orch. |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |