Video: Travel to the 'star nursery' 1,500 light-years from Earth

NASA combines images from Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes to discover the Orion nebula about 1,500 light-years from Earth.

NASA used the Hubble space telescope image, combined with the infrared image obtained from Spitzer space telescope to reconstruct a 3D space travel to Orion, also known as Orion nebula.

Picture 1 of Video: Travel to the 'star nursery' 1,500 light-years from Earth

Orion Nebula.

Like a "star nursery" in the universe. That's where many young stars begin to form.

This nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas with a structure influenced by the stellar wind and the radiation of the central star cluster called Trapezium .

Located about 1,500 light-years from Earth, the Orion Nebula is one of the brightest nebula visible to the naked eye.

Update 15 December 2018
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