Inside the Flame Nebula
This composite image shows one of the clusters, NGC 2024, which is found in the center of the so-called Flame Nebula about 1,400 light years from Earth. Astronomers have studied two star clusters using NASA Chandra and infrared telescopes.
- Date
- 2014-05-07
- Photographer / author
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/K.Getman, E.Feigelson, M.Kuhn and the MYStIX team; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Inside the Flame Nebula" (2014-05-07). NASA/JPL/X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/K.Getman, E.Feigelson, M.Kuhn and the MYStIX team; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18249Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 25060.
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