Amazing photo that captures the immensity of gas and dust in which the Orion belt region is located!!

Amazing photo that captures the immensity of gas and dust in which the Orion belt region is located!! 

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A photo that captures the immensity of gas and dust in which the Orion belt region is located!! , in the capture you will also be able to observe three stars that protrude from your left to right side.

Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak: the iconic stars of Orion's belt.

The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae can also be seen as dark dust, both near Alnitak at lower right.

The entire region is only about 1,500 light-years away, making it one of the closest and best-studied nurseries of star formation known.

Credit: Observatory in Marathon, Texas, USA / NASA.

Coment:

Gregory Lewis

Am I right in thinking the nebula is some light years distant from the best of Orion.

I haven't checked yet, so feel free to correct me.

Credy Cales

Reach for the moon if you miss you will land among the stars. I never go to the moon. I want to land among these beauties

Mary Barnes

Awesome! Unfortunatey, there is a lot of gas at Mary's belt! I know TMI!!!

Lucio De Lai

"The astronomical unit (symbol: au,[1][2][3][4] or AU or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun and equal to 150 million kilometres (93 million miles) or 8.3 light-minutes. The actual distance from Earth to the Sun varies by about 3% as Earth orbits the Sun, from a maximum (aphelion) to a minimum (perihelion) and back again once each year. The astronomical unit was originally conceived as the average of Earth's aphelion and perihelion; however, since 2012 it has been defined as exactly 149597870700 m (see below for several conversions).[5]"

Lucio De Lai 

Becky Prigge

This is Beautiful.

Wilk Wilkerson

A mean looking Space Monkey.

Zahid Ali

Allah is the best creator.

💞🥰

Paul G Bens Jr

if you hide in there Khan can't find you.

Marcel Landry

DANIEL MESTER THIS IS FOR YOU..