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Spitzer Sheds Light on Colony of Baby Stars
Discovery.com ^
| 04/01/10
| Ian O'Neill
Posted on 04/02/2010 3:11:12 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Deep inside the famous Orion Nebula, a colony of very young stars have been imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Although the observatory ran out of liquid helium coolant in May 2009, two modules inside its Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) remain fully operational, capturing wonderfully detailed pictures of Orion's star-forming region currently exploding with stellar life.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: astronomy; science; space; spitzer; spitzertelescope; telescope; xplanets
I hope one those contain planets for our new home..
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posted on
04/02/2010 3:11:55 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(No money for the moon, but money for High Speed Choo Choo's....)
To: KevinDavis
Geeze...for a minute I thought this was a story about Elliot Spitzer having developed an “interest” in Hollywood child stars.
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posted on
04/02/2010 3:25:55 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
To: Gay State Conservative
LOL my first thought was also of Elliot Spitzer. I thought it had been discovered that he had a litter of love children.
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posted on
04/02/2010 3:34:50 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Gay State Conservative; cripplecreek
Speak of the devil...
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posted on
04/02/2010 4:17:47 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
04/02/2010 4:23:55 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: KevinDavis
Within 1300ly of us these should be similarly metal enriched stars, possibly 2nd or 3rd generation, thus capable of sustaining at least microbial life in their albeit somewhat distant futures. And if one or more of them is a G2V system, God knows, maybe technological life might have a chance therein, given how the galaxy evolves over the next several billion years.
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posted on
04/02/2010 4:57:22 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: KevinDavis
Well if they do it’s going to take a very long, long time to get there. The Orion Nebula is home to the ‘’Trapezium’’, a cluster of four very bright, white-hot stars at the center. I’ve seen loads of time from my backyard.
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posted on
04/02/2010 5:44:55 PM PDT
by
John-Irish
("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
04/02/2010 6:04:20 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
(The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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posted on
04/02/2010 6:13:52 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: John-Irish
White hot... not white dwarves I figure. But blue shift?
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posted on
04/02/2010 10:24:40 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.)
To: wastedyears
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posted on
04/02/2010 10:46:55 PM PDT
by
John-Irish
("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
To: John-Irish
I remember blue shift being hotter and larger stars. Red would be more towards the middle of the life cycle.
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posted on
04/02/2010 11:07:34 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.)
To: wastedyears
As I understand it(and I’m a rank amatuer) the closer a star to us, the hotter and newer it is and yes, I believe the farther away and older then you have a ‘’’red shift’’. Anyhoo, I haven’t had my telescope out in a while and I’m p!ssed because Mars was so close to the Earth this and won’t be back till 2012. ( a sign from the heavens, like Obama’s going to be done in by Mars, the God of War?)
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:02:19 AM PDT
by
John-Irish
("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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