Monday, February 13, 2012

APOD 3.4

Dust of the Orion Nebula (February 6, 2012) 
This image shows the Orion Nebula, located 1600 light years away.  The cool stars in the nebula are surrounded by dust clouds that are expelled by a strong outer wind of particles.  The star cluster Trapezium is embedded in the nebula, along with M42 and M43.

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