Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble

This composite image of the Kleinmann-Low Nebula, part of the Orion Nebula complex, is composed of several pointings of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in optical and near-infrared light. Infrared light allows to peer through the dust of the nebula and to see the stars therein. The revealed stars are shown with a bright red colour in the image. With this image, showing the central region of the Orion Nebula, scientists were looking for rogue planets and brown dwarfs. As side-effect they found a fast-moving runaway star.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1705a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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