Dust of Orion
This image of the region surrounding the reflection nebula
Messier 78, just to the north of Orion’s belt, shows clouds of cosmic dust
threaded through the nebula like a string of pearls. The
submillimeter-wavelength observations, made with the Atacama Pathfinder
Experiment (APEX) telescope and shown here in orange, use the heat glow of
interstellar dust grains to show astronomers where new stars are being formed.
They are overlaid on a view of the region in visible light.
Image: ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/T.
Stanke et al./Igor Chekalin/Digitized Sky Survey 2 [high-resolution]
Caption: ESO
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