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Inside the Flame Nebula

Inside the Flame Nebula
Date taken Wed May 07 2014 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Chandra X-ray Observatory,Spitzer Space Telescope Metadata JSON

Behind the image

This composite image shows one of the clusters, NGC 2024, which is found in the center of the so-called Flame Nebula about 1,400 light years from Earth. Astronomers have studied two star clusters using NASA Chandra and infrared telescopes.