NGC 2024 | Flame Nebula Wall Art Size:SMALL (16 x 24) But here WISE sees the

But here WISE sees the infrared glow of the warmed dust itself

covering only a tiny fraction of the nebula's vast structure

Japan and Canada

like a lighthouse piercing through the storm clouds

NGC 2024 | Flame Nebula Wall Art Size:SMALL (16 x 24) But here WISE sees theThis 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