Hubble’s best ever view of the glorious, nearby Orion Nebula

By Cosmic Tribune on July 15, 2012   Impacting, Nebula, Stars  

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION VERSION] Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula. Also known as M42, the nebula’s glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away. The Orion Nebula  offers one of the best opportunities to study how stars […]