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Let’s Go, Airglow!

Let’s Go, Airglow!

A color-packed sky full of brilliant orange airglow hangs over Gemini North in Hawai‘i. The Gemini North telescope is one half of the International Gemini Observatory , supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and operated by NSF NOIRLab. In the top right of this image, we see the constellation Orion (The Hunter). Three red emission nebulae of the Orion molecular cloud complex are vividly…

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NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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Gemini North
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