{"id":5466,"date":"2022-01-04T17:44:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2022-01-23T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T10:50:58","slug":"eso-press-release-the-flame-nebula-region-as-seen-with-apex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/2022\/01\/04\/eso-press-release-the-flame-nebula-region-as-seen-with-apex\/","title":{"rendered":"ESO Press Release: The Flame Nebula region as seen with APEX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Kent astronomers pursue the origin of stars within international collaborations using telescopes across the world. Orion provides them with an extraordinary diverse range of activity. Here, it offers you a spectacular firework display to celebrate the holiday season and the new year in this new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). But no need to worry, this iconic constellation is neither exploding nor burning. The \u201cfire\u201d you see in this holiday postcard is Orion\u2019s Flame Nebula and its surroundings captured in radio waves \u2014 an image that undoubtedly does justice to the nebula\u2019s name! It was taken with the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), located on the cold Chajnantor Plateau in Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/physics-astronomy\/people\/370\/froebrich-dirk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Dirk Froebrich<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/physics-astronomy\/people\/358\/smith-michael\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Michael Smith<\/a> are part of this international research team.<\/p>\n<p>The full details of this press release can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2201\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also the YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hms-BS8MEDI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Kent astronomers pursue the origin of stars within international collaborations using telescopes across the world. Orion provides them with an extraordinary diverse range of activity. Here, it offers you a spectacular firework display to celebrate the holiday season and the new year in this new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":5469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[522,612],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/astrophysics-and-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}