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| 25 March 2014 The Orion field - approximately 1600 light years away - is immersed in intricate light patterns of dust arrangement. Dust is created in the outer atmosphere of massive cool stars and expelled by strong outer wind of particles. Trapezium and other forming star clusters are present. Filaments of dust surrounding M42 and M43 appear gray in the above image, while central glowing gas is highlighted in brown and blue. Orion's dust will be destroyed in the next few million years by the stars being formed now, or dispersed in the Galaxy. |
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
APOD 17: ORION NEBULA
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