Video: Travel to the 'star nursery' 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.
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.
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