File:The Orion Nebula and cluster from the VLT Survey Telescope.jpg

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Credit/Provider	ESO/G. Beccari
Source	European Southern Observatory
Short title	The Orion Nebula and cluster from the VLT Survey Telescope
Image title	OmegaCAM — the wide-field optical camera on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) — has captured the spectacular Orion Nebula and its associated cluster of young stars in great detail, producing this beautiful new image. This famous object, the birthplace of many massive stars, is one of the closest stellar nurseries, at a distance of about 1350 light-years.
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Date and time of data generation	12:00, 27 July 2017
JPEG file comment	OmegaCAM — the wide-field optical camera on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) — has captured the spectacular Orion Nebula and its associated cluster of young stars in great detail, producing this beautiful new image. This famous object, the birthplace of many massive stars, is one of the closest stellar nurseries, at a distance of about 1350 light-years.
Keywords	Orion Nebula
Contact information	http://www.eso.org Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany
IIM version	4