Messier 78: A Reflection Nebula in Orion Wall Art including Frame tapestry The giant star featured in

The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction

Reipurth (University of Hawaii)

Valentijn and collaborators at Groningen and elsewhere

and NASA/ESA

Messier 78: A Reflection Nebula in Orion Wall Art including Frame tapestry The giant star featured inThis new image of the reflection nebula Messier 78 was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG ESO 2. 2 metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This colour picture was created from many monochrome exposures taken through blue, yellow green and red filters, supplemented by exposures through a filter that isolates light from glowing hydrogen gas. The total exposure times were 9, 9, 17. 5 and 15. 5 minutes per filter,