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English: Infrared image of M42 nebula (Great Orion Nebula) made by Spitzer Telescope
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Orion nebula, our closest massive star-making factory, 1,450 light-years from Earth. The nebula is close enough to appear to the naked eye as a fuzzy star in the sword of the popular hunter constellation. The nebula itself is located on the lower half of the image, surrounded by a ring of dust. It formed in a cold cloud of gas and dust and contains about 1,000 young stars. These stars illuminate the cloud, creating the beautiful nebulosity, or swirls of material, seen here in infrared. This image shows infrared light captured by Spitzer's infrared array camera. Light with wavelengths of 8 and 5.8 microns (red and orange) comes mainly from dust that has been heated by starlight. Light of 4.5 microns (green) shows hot gas and dust; and light of 3.6 microns (blue) is from starlight. |
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Source | http://gallery.spitzer.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2006-16a |
Author | NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Megeath(University of Toledo) |
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see http://gallery.spitzer.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2006-16a High quality tif files also avaliable.
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File change date and time | 14:08, 8 August 2006 |
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