This image of the region
surrounding the reflection nebula Messier 78, just to the north of
Orion’s belt, shows clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula
like a string of pearls. The submillimeter-wavelength observations,
made with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope and shown
here in orange, use the heat glow of interstellar dust grains to show
astronomers where new stars are being formed. They are overlaid on a
view of the region in visible light.Thursday, January 10, 2013
Dust in Orion
This image of the region
surrounding the reflection nebula Messier 78, just to the north of
Orion’s belt, shows clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula
like a string of pearls. The submillimeter-wavelength observations,
made with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope and shown
here in orange, use the heat glow of interstellar dust grains to show
astronomers where new stars are being formed. They are overlaid on a
view of the region in visible light.
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