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Credit & Copyright: NASA,
Spitzer Space Telescope,
Universe of Learning;
Visualization:
F. Summers
(STScI)
et al.;
Music & License: Serenade for Strings (A. Dvoåök), Advent Chamber Orch.
Explanation:
What would it look like to fly into the Orion Nebula?
The exciting dynamic visualization
of the Orion Nebula is based on real
astronomical data
and adept movie rendering techniques.
Up close and personal with a famous stellar nursery
normally seen
from 1,500 light-years away, the digitally modeled
representation based is based on
infrared data from the
Spitzer Space Telescope.
The perspective moves along a valley over a
light-year wide, in the wall of the region's giant
molecular cloud.
Orion's valley ends in a cavity carved by the energetic
winds and
radiation of the massive central stars of the
Trapezium star cluster.
The entire Orion Nebula spans about 40
light years
and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy
as
the Sun.
Music & License: Serenade for Strings (A. Dvoåök), Advent Chamber Orch.
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