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Turbulent border

These images show the edge of the vast molecular cloud that lies behind the Orion Nebula, 1400 light-years from Earth. The image of the left shows a wide-field view of the region, as seen with the HAWK-I instrument, installed at the Very Large Telescope. A small region is highlighted with a white rectangle, and the rightmost image shows that region in stunning fiery detail, observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

 

More information: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1633a/

 

Credit:

ESO/Goicoechea et al.

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Uploaded on August 15, 2016