Sunday, October 23, 2011

Gorgeous image of the Orion Nebula taken by the CFHT!

Gorgeous image of the Orion Nebula taken by the CFHT
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This gorgeous image of the Orion Nebula (M42) was obtained using the MegaCam camera on the 3.6-meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CHFT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.
Credit: Jean-Charles Cuillandre, CFHT - http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/ and Giovanni Anselmi, Coelum Astronomia - http://www.coelum.com/

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