Meet Orion – The Hunter in the Sky! 🌟⁠ ⁠ One of the most recognizable constellations, Orion dominates the night sky with its bright stars and stunning nebulae.⁠ ⁠ ✨ What makes Orion special?⁠ 🔹 Orion’s Belt – Three stars in a perfect row.⁠ 🔹 Betelgeuse – A giant red star that could explode one day! 💥⁠ 🔹 Rigel – A dazzling blue supergiant.⁠ ⁠ ☁️ Orion’s Nebulas⁠ 🌠 Orion Nebula (M42) – A birthplace of new stars.⁠ 🐴 Horsehead Nebula – A dark cloud with a striking shape.⁠ ⁠ 🔭 How to find Ori

Explore this 360-degree tour of the Orion Nebula, which reveals a glowing gaseous landscape shaped by high-energy radiation and strong stellar winds. This movie combines observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, presenting distinct features in the nebula that are uncovered by different wavelengths of light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiqfafdHn9k&feature=youtu.be Credits: NASA, ESA, F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, J. DePasquale, L. Hustak, L. Frattare, M. Robberto and M.

• 3D Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared Light 17.4.2020 VIDEO: (Best on full screen) This visualization explores the Orion Nebula using both visible and infrared light. The sequence begins with a wide-field view of the sky showing the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, then zooms down to the scale of the Orion Nebula. The visible light observation (from the Hubble Space Telescope) and the infrared light observation (from the Spitzer Space Telescope) are compared first in two-dim