APOD 4.7

Today's post is from May 10th and is a photo of the inside of the Flame Nebula.

This is only 1400 light years away and is located in the dense part of the Orion nebula. This is actually an xray photo of the nebula and it was taken by the Spitzer Telescope. This nebula will only get denser for several millions more years and this is visually stunning.