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Window-Curtain Structure of the Orion Nebula Revealed


Date: 03 October 1990
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: Orion Nebula
Copyright: NASA

Recent images made with the Wide Field Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the structure of a thin sheet of gas located at the edge of the famous "Great Nebula" in Orion, an estimated 1500 light years from Earth.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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