NGC 2024 | Flame Nebula Android Phone Case Style:Galaxy S7 The image is approximately 200

The image is approximately 200 arcseconds across

26 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

The bright star above the filament is φ Tauri

of part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud

NGC 2024 | Flame Nebula Android Phone Case Style:Galaxy S7 The image is approximately 200This 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