Making a spectacle of star formation in Orion
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 16:31
in Astronomy & Space
Looking like a pair of eyeglasses only a rock star would wear, a new nebula view brings into focus a murky region of star formation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty nebula with its infrared vision, showing stellar infants that are lost behind dark clouds when viewed in visible light.