What would it look like to fly into the Orion Nebula? The exciting dynamic visualization of the Orion Nebula is based on real astronomical data and adept movie rendering techniques brings up close and personal with a famous stellar nursery normally seen from 1,500 light-years away. The digitally modeled representation is based on infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
The perspective moves along a valley over a light-year wide, in the wall of the region's giant molecular cloud. Orion's valley ends in a cavity carved by the energetic winds and radiation of the massive central stars of the Trapezium star cluster.
The entire Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as our Solar System.
Video Credit: NASA, Spitzer Space Telescope, Universe of Learning; Visualization: F. Summers (STScI) et al
Music Credit: Ignite by All Good Folks
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