APEX View of a Star Formation in the Orion Nebula Rectangular Sticker

Credit: ESO/Digitised Sky Survey 2 This photograph was produced by European Southern Observatory (ESO). Their website states: "All ESO still and motion pictures are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported, unless the credit byline indicates otherwise." (See: http://www.eso.org/gallery/copyright.html) From: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:APEX_view_of_star_formation_and_cosmic_clouds_in_the_Orion_Nebula.jpg Cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky. The orange glow represents faint light coming from grains of cold interstellar dust, at wavelengths too long for human eyes to see. It was observed by the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)