Orion Size:63" x 42" (160 cm x 107 cm) hot young stars

hot young stars

This broad panorama of the Carina Nebula

The fireworks in the Carina region started three million years ago when the nebula's first generation of newborn stars condensed and ignited in the middle of a huge cloud of cold molecular hydrogen

The galactic panorama unveils a tapestry of the drama of stellar birth and death

Orion Size:63" x 42" (160 cm x 107 cm) hot young starsThis image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows what lies near the sword of the constellation Orion an active stellar nursery containing thousands of young stars and developing protostars. Many will turn out like our sun. Some are even more massive. These massive stars light up the Orion nebula, which is seen here as the bright region near the center of the image. To the north of the Orion nebula is a dark filamentary cloud of cold dust and gas,