Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers at NASA captured this colorful, breathtaking view of a portion of the Orion Nebula, revealing a great deal of cosmic chaos at this location. The nebula is located around 1,500 light-years from Earth.
Scientists used Spitzer because its infrared detectors can sense the ... |
11 April 2012
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This image from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Planck telescope shows an overview of the Orion constellation, including the Horsehead Nebula and the Orion Nebula. The latter is visible to the lower center of the photo.
Located about 1,500 light-years away, the formation has captivated the imagination of ast... |
5 December 2011
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NASA has just released a new image depicting the Sword in the Orion's Nebula. The exquisite image shows an area of intense stellar formation known as a stellar nursery, which features thousands of stars. The gas around the structure is glowing because it's ionized by stellar winds all around. In addition to... |
18 October 2011
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Experts operating the Herschel Space Observatory announce the discovery of molecular oxygen in the Orion Nebula, a renowned stellar nursery inside the Milky Way. The European Space Agency (ESA) telescope is the first to find this form of oxygen in outer space. Atomic oxygen has been spotted in a variety of locations ... |
2 August 2011
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Astronomers using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory announce the discovery of organic molecules that may potentially enable life. The chemicals were discovered in the famous Orion Nebula.The stellar nursery is located within our own galaxy, the Milky Way. According to the research team... |
1 August 2011
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Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have just released a new image of the famous Orion Nebula, one of the most well-known structure in space. The star-forming region was observed using the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory, in Chile. The Wide Field Imager (WFI) instrument pr... |
19 January 2011
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a new view of the renowned Carina Nebula, one that shows the cosmic structures in a way no one has seen before. The formation, which is located an estimated 7,500 light-years away from our solar system, reveals impressive pillars of cosmic dust and hy... |
17 September 2010
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Scientists at the American space agency have just revealed the latest image they produced of the famous Orion Nebula. The photograph, which was snapped using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, one of the four Great Observatories the agency built, shows in great detail the active stellar formation processes taking plac... |
2 April 2010
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Scientists operating the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory announce the discovery of a host of life-enabling molecules in the famous Orion Nebula. The trace signature of these chemicals was discovered through spectral analysis of the light coming in from this particular location. Herschel is uni... |
5 March 2010
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All living things on the planet carry within them the basic components of life, which come in the form of 20 types of amino-acids, each of which was absolutely essential in promoting the emergence of the first living things. What has been amazing for researchers for quite some time now is the fact that all of these a... |
19 January 2010
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope have recently released a number of 30 new images of what they name cosmic “blobs and smudges,” all inside the famous Orion Nebula. All the structures, the team says, are planetary systems in the making, and they will come to resemble our own solar system ov... |
15 December 2009
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What do you see when you look upwards on a clear sky night? A few thousands stars maybe, some of the planets in the solar system, and the Moon... Looks kind of empty, doesn't it? The fact is that our galaxy is mostly cold empty space, as much as the universe. Nonetheless, astronomers from the Paul Scherrer Insti... |
8 February 2008
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