Zooming into a deep infrared image of the Orion Nebula

This video starts from a wide view of the night sky and zooms in on the famous constellation of Orion. The final part gives a close-up view of a spectacular new image of the Orion Nebula star-formation region that was obtained from multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. This is the deepest view ever of this region and reveals more very faint planetary-mass objects than expected.

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[phm]

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[ropoman]

Have you noticed the image of the old gray bearded man in the left lower quadrant between 0:32 and 0:37