Orion V Solar Wind and boulders that have fallen

and boulders that have fallen from the crater wall are visible on the crater floor

and the image scale is 34 kilometers (21 miles) per pixel in the radial

The 2002 Blue Marble featured land surfaces

To the north of the Orion nebula is a dark filamentary cloud of cold dust and gas

5 million light-years away

Orion V Solar Wind and boulders that have fallenThis wide field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), lying about 1350 light years from Earth, was taken with the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESOs Paranal Observatory in Chile. The new telescopes huge field of view allows the whole nebula and its surroundings to be imaged in a single picture and its infrared vision also means that it can peer deep into the normally hidden dusty regions and reveal the curious antics of the very active young