Orion Nebula Fly-Through

This animation reveals the topography and beauty of the Orion Nebula like never before. Based on data obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope, all of the gas clouds, stars, and proplyds are positioned as accurately as possible. The animation ends with a close-up examination of HST-10, where astronomers see dust grains clumping in the early stages of forming planets. At the same time, HST-10's gaseous envelope is being being burned away by the Trapezium stars in the nebula's center. This is an artist's conception, not a view from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• nebula
• Orion
• Hubble
• space
• telescope
• universe
• cosmos
• hubblesource
• stsci

[anonymousstormchaser]

Imagine living on a planet in the Orion Nebula.

[DJdeadlyDALEK]

So what's that at the end? A giant white space donut?

[FrogsGames]

@DJdeadlyDALEK A star in the making. Although if it was a donut I'd be living in the Orion Nebula by February ;)

[FrogsGames]

@anonymousstormchaser Yes, it would be cool. But if you go there, the SSPPAACEEE dust fades and you won't notice it.

[thoostorm4]

@anonymousstormchaser justgoingthere

[ftlqed]

I have such a change of heart of these spacial wave's. Mainly sideband can't go to infinity, so space itself is gravitating sideband. For sideband to work on a solid, one needs a dialectric to get confused, but how can one be powerfully confussed?

[26mel1]

@anonymousstormchaser They are :-)

[puncheex]

@heartlessvietboy: How is it confusing to call a protostar a protostar?

[heartlessvietboy]

One person is saying one thing the other is saying another. What is it?

[heartlessvietboy]

When we speak of a protostar please stick to saying that it's a protostar formation. Do not confuse people.

[anonymousstormchaser]

I disagree, I think there are planets, but the question is if they are habitable.

[SalsaSalling]

@anonymousstormchaser I doubt that there is any planets there, but it would be nice.