The Orion Nebula: Panning across a deep infrared image | ESO

The Orion Nebula: Panning across a deep infrared image | ESO

This video gives a close-up view of a spectacular new image of the Orion Nebula star-formation region that was obtained from multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. This is one of the deepest views ever of this region and it revealed many more very faint planetary-mass objects than expected.

Credits: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/H. Drass et al. Music: Johan B. Monell

Duration: 1 minute, 30 seconds

Release Date: July 12, 2016

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