Orion V Solar Wind The disks are the building

The disks are the building blocks of solar systems

The 2002 Blue Marble featured land surfaces

2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory

School those shallow minded folks with a lesson of what is truly hot

and boulders that have fallen from the crater wall are visible on the crater floor

Orion V Solar Wind The disks are the buildingThis wide field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), lying about 1350 light years from Earth, was taken with the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESOs Paranal Observatory in Chile. The new telescopes huge field of view allows the whole nebula and its surroundings to be imaged in a single picture and its infrared vision also means that it can peer deep into the normally hidden dusty regions and reveal the curious antics of the very active young