Friday, January 17, 2014

Spitzer's Orion

This is a beautiful false color image of the stellar nusery, Orion's Belt which is located some 1,500 million light years away from Earth. The brighter region in the center of this infared photo shows the Trapezium Cluster which is the group of young, hot, massive stars in the nebula. Orion's Belt is its own constellation as well as being a part of the constellation Orion itself.

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