"Exif II* - n ( 1 $ 2 i These images show the edge of the vast molecular clouds that constitute the Orion Bar Nebula, 1400 light-years from Earth. The image of the left shows a wide-field view of the region, as seen with the the HAWK-I instrument, installed at the Very Large Telescope. A small region is highlighted with a white rectangle, and the rightmost image shows that region in stunning fiery detail, observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). As well as producing beautiful images, molecular clouds are of great interest to astronomers. The clouds are stellar nurseries and at their edge atoms are converted to molecules in a key astrochemical process. With the ALMA observations scientists were able to to resolve this transition from atomic to molecular gas at the fringes of the Orion molecular cloud. As Orion is the nearest massive region of star formation it is the ideal target to find out more about these astrochemical processes, and it also offers the possibility to study the interactions of newly formed stars with their surroundings in detail. Both observations show that this fascinating astrochemical transition from atomic to molecular happens in a highly dynamic environment. ALMA’s view of the nebula particularly resembles the dark clouds of a huge upcoming storm in Earth’s atmosphere.
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' Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5 (Windows) 2016-08-11T12:53:51-04:00 0220 $http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/ Log(x) 0.00000000000000 53.75458582342730 0.00000000000000 10.00000000000000 0.21661512387095 2.07677336571320 1727.0 747.0 B.4.1.2 Turbulent border These images show the edge of the vast molecular clouds that constitute the Orion Bar Nebula, 1400 light-years from Earth. The image of the left shows a wide-field view of the region, as seen with the the HAWK-I instrument, installed at the Very Large Telescope. A small region is highlighted with a white rectangle, and the rightmost image shows that region in stunning fiery detail, observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). As well as producing beautiful images, molecular clouds are of great interest to astronomers. The clouds are stellar nurseries and at their edge atoms are converted to molecules in a key astrochemical process. With the ALMA observations scientists were able to to resolve this transition from atomic to molecular gas at the fringes of the Orion molecular cloud. As Orion is the nearest massive region of star formation it is the ideal target to find out more about these astrochemical processes, and it also offers the possibility to study the interactions of newly formed stars with their surroundings in detail. Both observations show that this fascinating astrochemical transition from atomic to molecular happens in a highly dynamic environment. ALMA’s view of the nebula particularly resembles the dark clouds of a huge upcoming storm in Earth’s atmosphere. M 42 Messier 42 Orion Nebula adobe:docid:photoshop:1cf12bc1-596e-11e6-bcdc-c7a3435ef7fc adobe:docid:photoshop:2244ef7b-42b9-11e6-aeb5-9d18a5e60830 adobe:docid:photoshop:399e20e8-42ba-11e6-86ee-c1ec0e042597 adobe:docid:photoshop:910251a5-4993-11e6-b412-fcdf055599fa adobe:docid:photoshop:94f855f5-3e04-11e6-b2dc-ee772e1fea64 adobe:docid:photoshop:af55f966-31a3-11e6-90d9-93727ed8a55e adobe:docid:photoshop:d911584a-4387-11e6-9c11-ce12d4dee5ab xmp.did:2391cac5-af3a-f948-bef4-48ba7b546c26 xmp.did:cc0c1940-7eba-e54f-9764-bf361772527b Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://epocms-alpha.nrao.edu/news/alma-image-orion/ $http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/ Log(x) 0.00000000000000 53.75458582342730 0.00000000000000 10.00000000000000 0.21661512387095 2.07677336571320 1727.0 747.0 B.4.1.2 Turbulent border These images show the edge of the vast molecular clouds that constitute the Orion Bar Nebula, 1400 light-years from Earth. The image of the left shows a wide-field view of the region, as seen with the the HAWK-I instrument, installed at the Very Large Telescope. A small region is highlighted with a white rectangle, and the rightmost image shows that region in stunning fiery detail, observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). As well as producing beautiful images, molecular clouds are of great interest to astronomers. The clouds are stellar nurseries and at their edge atoms are converted to molecules in a key astrochemical process. With the ALMA observations scientists were able to to resolve this transition from atomic to molecular gas at the fringes of the Orion molecular cloud. As Orion is the nearest massive region of star formation it is the ideal target to find out more about these astrochemical processes, and it also offers the possibility to study the interactions of newly formed stars with their surroundings in detail. Both observations show that this fascinating astrochemical transition from atomic to molecular happens in a highly dynamic environment. ALMA’s view of the nebula particularly resembles the dark clouds of a huge upcoming storm in Earth’s atmosphere. 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A small region is highlighted with a white rectangle, and the rightmost image shows that region in stunning fiery detail, observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). As well as producing beautiful images, molecular clouds are of great interest to astronomers. The clouds are stellar nurseries and at their edge atoms are converted to molecules in a key astrochemical process. With the ALMA observations scientists were able to to resolve this transition from atomic to molecular gas at the fringes of the Orion molecular cloud. As Orion is the nearest massive region of star formation it is the ideal target to find out more about these astrochemical processes, and it also offers the possibility to study the interactions of newly formed stars with their surroundings in detail. Both observations show that this fascinating astrochemical transition from atomic to molecular happens in a highly dynamic environment. 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