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Flame Nebula Close-Up (3.05)

NGC 2024, known as the flame nebula, can be found in Orion. The large amounts of ionized hydrogen make it red-orange. By using infrared, one can see the interstellar dust that is being absorbed and the hot, young stars behins it. It also has UV light. It is 1500 light years away.