Orion Nebula — nebula, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
The nearest stellar nursery: a glowing cavern of gas where thousands of new stars are igniting right now. Four newborn giants — the Trapezium — light the whole cloud from inside.
Orion Nebula is placed at its true position on the sky and at its real measured distance, not as a flat backdrop. Fly out from the Sun in the live 3D view and watch it change from a point of light into structure as you approach, with the scale bar showing just how far out you have travelled.