Posted on 09/17/2011 8:16:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula, an immense stellar nursery some 1,500 light-years away. This stunning false-color view spans about 40 light-years across the region, constructed using infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Compared to its visual wavelength appearance, the brightest portion of the nebula is likewise centered on Orion's young, massive, hot stars, known as the Trapezium Cluster. But the infrared image also detects the nebula's many protostars, still in the process of formation, seen here in red hues. In fact, red spots along the dark dusty filament to the left of the bright cluster include the protostar cataloged as HOPS 68, recently found to have crystals of the silicate mineral olivine within its protostellar envelope.
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[Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, T. Megeath (Univ. Toledo, Ohio)]
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Cool. Where is Weiner’s Virgo?
I always thought that the Sword on the Belt of Orion was a series of well aligned stars. Now I find out that it’s just Eliot Spitzer’s “Weiner.”
These corrupt and weird New York politicians will do anything for publicity including polluting space.
Have they no shame?
Next we’ll find out that Anthony Weiner posed for Michael Angelo’s marble statute of “David”.
Oh the horror of it all!
Is there a planet number nine?
New Yorkers? No, we don't. ;-)
This looks like the handy work of God. Just another moment in creation
A beautiful flash of colors.
“stunning false-color view”. In other words, a painting.
Second time Orion Nebula has made it into Pic of the Week in the last couple of weeks. My favorite sky formation. Love looking at it. A beautiful phenomena of nature.
Beauty.
The jokes just write themselves!
But it IS beautiful.
Thanks, Civ.
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