The Orion Nebula's biggest stars
Packed into the centre of this region are bright lights of the Trapezium stars, the four heftiest stars in the Orion Nebula. Ultraviolet light unleashed by these stars is carving a cavity in the nebula and disrupting the growth of hundreds of smaller stars. The dark speck near the bottom, right of the image is a silhouette of an edge-on disk encircling a young star. Another whitish-looking disk is visible near the bottom, left, just above the two bright stars. This disk is encased in a bubble of gas and dust.
Credit:NASA, ESA, M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
About the Image
NASA press release
Id: | heic0601d |
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Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 11 January 2006, 16:00 |
Related releases: | heic0601 |
Size: | 3939 x 2955 px |
About the Object
Name: | Messier 42, Messier 43, Orion Nebula |
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Type: | Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation Milky Way : Nebula : Appearance : Emission : H II Region |
Distance: | 1400 light years |
Constellation: | Orion |
Category: | Nebulae |
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 5 35 15.88 |
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Position (Dec): | -5° 23' 39.07" |
Field of view: | 6.57 x 4.93 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 0.0° right of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Optical B | 435 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
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Optical V | 555 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
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Optical H-alpha | 658 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |
Infrared I | 775 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |
Infrared Z | 850 nm |
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Notes: Additional observational data from the WFI instrument on the ESO.MPG 2.2-metre telescope.