The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning new image of two stars in the Orion Nebula, a region of stellar formation located about 1,450 light-years away.
captured a stunning new image of the bright variable star V 372 Orionis and a companion star.
The NASA and European Space Agency telescope snapped the stars, which lie in the Orion Nebula, a region of stellar formation located around 1,450 light-years away from Earth. V 372 Orionis is a particular type of variable star known as an Orion Variable. The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Patchy gas and dust of the Orion Nebulae are seen throughout the image. Orion Variables are commonly associated with diffuse nebulae. The image from the team overlays data from two of the telescope's instruments — the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3. An astronaut aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this image of the Hubble Space Telescope May 19, 2009.
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