Mosaic of 45 images taken between Jan. 1994 and March 1995 of M42, the Orion Nebula
This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's 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.
Credit: C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA |