Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars

  • Released Thursday, October 17, 2013
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This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, represents the sharpest view ever taken of this region, called the Orion Nebula. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. These stars reside in a dramatic dust-and-gas landscape of plateaus, mountains, and valleys that are reminiscent of the Grand Canyon.

Orion image from Hubble

Orion image from Hubble

Center region of Orion image at full resolution

Center region of Orion image at full resolution

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See http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/01/

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Please give credit for this item to:
NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

This page was originally published on Thursday, October 17, 2013.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:23 AM EST.

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