Credit: NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and S.K. Wong (Rice University)

This spectacular colour panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, seamlessly composited from a mosaic of 15 separate fields, covers an area of sky about five percent the area covered by the full Moon.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9545a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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