New images of the Orion Nebula from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have been included in ESA's ESASky application, which has a user-friendly interface to visualize and download astronomical data.
This image shows a long-wavelength NIRCam mosaic of the inner Orion Nebula and Trapezium Cluster in the ESA Sky platform. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA; Science leads and image processing: M. McCaughrean, S. PearsonOne of the brightest nebulae in the night sky is Messier 42, the Orion Nebula, located south of Orion's belt.
The new imaging was obtained with Webb's near-infrared camera, NIRCam, and has been made into two mosaics, one each from the short and long wavelength channels. This is a screenshot from the ESA Sky platform showing d072-135, one of the interesting objects in the short-wavelength mosaic. This shows a circumstellar disk as a silhouette against the background nebula, being heated and evaporated by the Trapezium stars, forming a colorful tail of molecular and ionized gas. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA Science leads and image processing: M. McCaughrean, S. Pearson
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