Go on a space trip to Orion with this nifty photography

Probably the most interesting time-lapse video you'll see

Ever wanted to take a trip to outer space? Well, a rather clever astronomer called Isidro Villó has made a fanatstic little time-lapse journey there.

He built a special lens mount for his camera that automatically zooms in on the night sky and alters the exposure, capturing clear images as the camera zooms in… and zooms in … and zooms in…

If you like space, you'll love this.

What exacly is the Orion Nebula, you wonder?

Well, NGC 1976 is a cloud of dust and gas sitting in space about 1,344 light years away. It's part of the constellation Orion, obviously, and hangs just below Orion's Belt. It's very, very big - about 24 light years wide (that's 2.27052682 × 10^14 km), and very, very bright as these things go: you can even see it with the naked eye in a good stargazing spot.

We'd love to see Villó use his new device with a big telescope attached to take us even further in to other places – after all, as you can see at the end of the video, he's using a very good, but still reasonable, camera kit.

Hat-tip to the clever Phil Plait at Slate's Bad Astronomy blog for spotting it.