Baby Stars Spied Throbbing Inside Orion
Looking like a blinding battle between opposing cosmic forces, this dazzling image shows a region of the Orion nebula as seen by NASA’s Spitzer and the European Space Agency’s Herschel space telescopes. The colors represent different wavelengths of infrared light emitted by infant stars as they heat up and cool down over the course of their energetic development.
Image credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/IRAM
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Is it just me, or does that look like the Medusa Cascade? (…you know you watch too much Doctor Who when you say things...