NGC 2024 | Flame Nebula Android Phone Case Style:Galaxy S7 of part of the Taurus

of part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud

and much of it centers on understanding dark matter

Pictures of the Cocoon nebula taken with visible light see only the inner most part of this cloud glowing red and surrounded by an eerie darkness

26 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

The submillimetre-wavelength observations from the LABOCA camera on APEX

NGC 2024 | Flame Nebula Android Phone Case Style:Galaxy S7 of part of the TaurusThis 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