Swirling like some cosmic watercolor painting, behold this breathtaking new image of the Orion Nebula recently captured by a venerable space telescope.
This dreamy Hubble Space Telescope photo is a vibrant cloudscape that exists in the territory surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505 in a remote corner of the Orion Nebula about 1,000 light-years from Earth, according to a statement (opens in new tab) from NASA and the European Space Agency, which operate the observatory.
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Because of its bounty, the Orion Nebula is often in the spotlight of scientific minds and photographic equipment and is a favorite focus of the Hubble Space Telescope.
This particular observation was just one component of a breathtaking Hubble mosaic of the Orion Nebula that fused 520 ACS images rendered in five colors to create the clearest tableau of the nebula ever.
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