Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                                2021 June 29
   [2]The picture shows the interior of the Orion Nebula as imaged by the
    Hubble Space Telescope. Please see the explanation for more detailed
                                information.

                        Orion Nebula: The Hubble View
    Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]ESA, [5]Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing:
                      [6]Francisco Javier Pobes Serrano

   Explanation: Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like [7]the Orion
   Nebula. Also known as [8]M42, the nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot
   young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar [9]molecular cloud
   only 1,500 light-years away. The [10]Orion Nebula offers one of the
   best opportunities to study how [11]stars are born partly because it is
   the nearest large [12]star-forming region, but also because the
   nebula's [13]energetic stars have blown away obscuring gas and dust
   clouds that would otherwise block our view - providing an intimate look
   at a range of ongoing stages [14]of starbirth and evolution. The
   featured image of the Orion Nebula is among the sharpest ever,
   constructed using data from the [15]Hubble Space Telescope. The
   [16]entire Orion Nebula spans about 40 [17]light years and is located
   in the same [18]spiral arm of our Galaxy as [19]the Sun.

                       Tomorrow's picture: first stars
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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2106/OrionNebula_HubbleSerrano_2362.jpg
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   4. https://esahubble.org/
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   6. https://www.instagram.com/javierpobes/
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