NGC 2024 | Flame Nebula Wall Art including Frame Sizes:MEDIUM (20x30) TESS only sees the transits

TESS only sees the transits crossing the larger star — the transits of the smaller star are too faint to detect

This spectacular spiral galaxy

located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina

9 microns is cyan

NGC 2024 | Flame Nebula Wall Art including Frame Sizes:MEDIUM (20x30) TESS only sees the transitsThis 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