Arizona: Dark, billowing clouds sweep across this stunning photo of a large star-forming area of the Orion constellation. A dark nebula known as LDN 1622, captured using the Mosaic-3 instrument on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona
Dark nebulas are so named because their thick interstellar dust obscures light from nearby stars and other neighboring objects, according to a statement from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) NOIRLab.
LDN 1622 is located 1,300 light-years from Earth in the nearby Orion complex, a star-forming region teeming with young stars. It is located near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy close to the belt and sword of the Orion constellation.
The recent image was taken using the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at KPNO in Arizona, which is operated by NOIRLab.
Astronomers captured this view of LDN 1622 using the telescope’s wide-field camera, called Mosaic-3 — the predecessor of the Mayall scope’s Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which began operations in 2020 as the most powerful multi-object survey spectrograph in the world, according to the statement.
This new image, which NOIRLab shared on June 21, was taken in 2018, before the 2022 Contreras fire that impacted the observatory. The fire, which was caused by a lightning strike, reached the observatory on June 17, 2022.
News & Image Source: space.com
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