Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion. But this image, a representative-color composite of 81 near-infrared light images taken with VLT's ISAAC, shows the Orion Nebula to be a busy neighborhood of young stars, hot gas, and dark dust. The power behind much of the Orion Nebula (M42) is the Trapezium - four of the brightest stars in the nebula. The eerie blue glow surrounding the bright stars pictured here is their own starlight reflected by nearby dust. Dark brown dust filaments cover much of the region. The whole Orion Nebula cloud complex, which includes the Horsehead Nebula, will slowly disperse over the next 100,000 years.

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Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA)
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Publikacii s klyuchevymi slovami: Orion Nebula - trapezium - Bol'shaya tumannost' Oriona - Trapeciya Oriona Publikacii so slovami: Orion Nebula - trapezium - Bol'shaya tumannost' Oriona - Trapeciya Oriona
Sm. takzhe: M42: Bol'shaya tumannost' Oriona Tumannost' Oriona i Konskaya Golova Trapeciya: v serdce Oriona Skrytyi Orion ot teleskopa "Dzheims Vebb" Orion i Begushii chelovek M43: potoki Oriona Polet skvoz' tumannost' Oriona v infrakrasnom svete Vse publikacii na tu zhe temu >>