Sifting through Dust near Orion’s Belt (zoom)
This zoom sequence opens with a wide-field view of the Milky Way. We close in on the constellation of Orion and as we zoom in on to a region close to Orion’s famous Belt, a fascinating region of dust and reflection nebulosity — known as Messier 78 — comes into view. At the end of the zoom, submillimetre-wavelength observations from the LABOCA camera on APEX reveal the heat glow of the dust grains, shown here in orange tones.
Credit:ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/T. Stanke et al./S. Brunier/Chris Johnson (cuttinedgeobservatory.com)/Digitized Sky Survey 2, and Igor Chekalin. Music: Disasterpeace (http://disasterpeace.com/)
About the Video
| Id: | eso1219a |
| Release date: | 2 May 2012, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1219 |
| Duration: | 01 m 01 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | M 78, Messier 78, NGC 2068 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Nebula : Appearance : Reflection |
| Category: | Nebulae |
