Image of the week - Hubble goes 3D

Image of the week - Hubble goes 3D Image courtesy of NASA. If this image of the Orion Nebula looks a little like a Hubble image, and a little like a 3D graphic, that's because it's both. Science visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland created 12 minutes of visualization for Hubble 3D, a 43-minute 3D Imax film chronicling the history of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The visualization includes a four minute tour through the gas and dust "canyon" of the Orion Nebula. NASA's website on the project states: For some of the sequences, STScI imaging specialists developed new techniques for transforming the 2-D Hubble images into 3-D. STScI image processing specialists Lisa Frattare and Zolt Levay, for example, created methods of splitting a giant gaseous pillar in the Carina Nebula into multiple layers to produce a 3D effect, giving the structure depth. The Carina Nebula is a nursery for baby stars. Frattare painstakingly removed the