the Orion Nebula

Great picture of the Orion Nebula captured by a 67-megapixel, infrared-sensitive VISTA telescope.

Via Wired


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  1. jamie Valdez February 10th, 2010 7:25 pm

    That’s flippin’ awesome!

  2. supercurt108 February 10th, 2010 11:07 pm

    God’s work is beautiful!

  3. ajaniphoto February 11th, 2010 1:00 am

    This is incredible.

    It blows my mind to think of how old the light was (from Orion), that hit the Vista telescope.

    Great image!

  4. Lolita February 11th, 2010 3:03 am

    Amazing!

  5. Kerry. February 11th, 2010 6:10 am

    I just adore pictures like this. My brother has so many books about space with pictures of different nebulas like this, just to look at the colours is unbelieveable.

  6. London February 11th, 2010 11:04 am

    Okay I need to leave the wine alone because that looks like E.T.’s silhouette.

  7. Eurshla February 11th, 2010 12:51 pm

    Do you see the man in the white area??? its a side profile on the right side of it.

    I have went to nasa’s site and looked at many of these pics, and there is always something in them Heavenly. One looks like a giant eye, I saw one with angel wings in it, They are beautiful, I think we get these moments when the “fabric” between Heaven and us is torn, and we get a small glimpse. It’s just my theory. :)

  8. Sharron February 11th, 2010 12:53 pm

    fascinated with this , pure awesome.:)

  9. Hatti February 11th, 2010 10:16 pm

    that is mad frikkin shot! love it!

  10. Mrs_PWilliams February 13th, 2010 5:39 am

    Absolutely gorgeous shot. Reminds me of the ‘Seeing Sounds’ album insert.

  11. Julia.O February 13th, 2010 8:49 am

    Out of this world, wow

  12. milo mel February 14th, 2010 8:38 am

    so beautiful!

    @london may I should stay of the wine too coz I saw that straight away too!!

    (its a London thing!)

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