The Orion Nebula | ESO

The Orion Nebula | ESO

This image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This image is a composite of several exposures taken through a total of five different filters. Light that passed through a red filter, as well as light from a filter that shows the glowing hydrogen gas, is colored red. Light in the yellow–green part of the spectrum is colored green, blue light is colored blue and light that passed through an ultraviolet filter has been colored purple. The exposure times were about 52 minutes through each filter. 

Distance: 1,400 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Igor Chekalin

Release Date: January 19, 2011

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