Radio Astronomers Peer Deep into the Stellar Nursery of the Orion Nebula (IMAGE)

Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics

Radio Astronomers Peer Deep into the Stellar Nursery of the Orion Nebula

Caption

In this composite image combining GBT radio and WISE infrared observations, the filament of ammonia molecules appears red and Orion Nebula gas appears blue.

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Image: R. Friesen, Dunlap Institute; J. Pineda, MPIP; GBO/AUI/NSF

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