NGC 2024 | Flame Nebula Wall Art including Frame Sizes:MEDIUM (20x30) was taken in infrared light

was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope

Astronomers aren't sure how rings like this form in galaxies but some theories suggest they arise out of gravitational disturbances with neighboring galaxies

TESS only sees the transits crossing the larger star — the transits of the smaller star are too faint to detect

9 microns is cyan

Credit: ESO/G

NGC 2024 | Flame Nebula Wall Art including Frame Sizes:MEDIUM (20x30) was taken in infrared lightThis image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worlds largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. In views of this evocative object in visible light the core of the nebula is completely hidden behind obscuring dust, but in this VISTA view, taken in infrared light, the cluster of very young stars at the objects