Feb 11
Ground-Based Telescope Reveals Stunning Orion Nebula Image
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The orbiting Hubble Space Telescope isn’t the only way to get stunning images of distant objects.
This breathtaking photo of the Orion Nebula (M42), a stellar nursery about 1,350 light years from Earth, was taken by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), the newest scope to grace the European Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, according to Space.com.
Orion is an easy target even for amateur astronomers using home-based telescopes. But VISTA’s image shows what those telescopes can’t: the large portion of Orion’s gas cloud that only reveals itself to detectors sensitive to longer, infrared wavelength radiation, the report said.
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