M43: Dust, Gas, and Stars in the Orion Nebula (Astronomy Picture of the Day)

APOD.NASA ^ | 6 Jul, 2020 | NASA, Bryan Goff

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Orion Nebula Arguably the most famous of all astronomy nebulas, the Great Nebula in Orion is an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the featured deep image shown in assigned colors, the part of the nebula's center known as M43 is shown as taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. The entire Orion Nebula, including both M42 and M43 spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.

[MtnClimber]

[flaglady47]

I see the figure of a man. The light part is the head, and then it tapers down to shoulders and upper chest design in the lower clouds. Does anyone else see it or am I nutz...
Now be nice.

The Orion nebula is my fave.

[flaglady47]

P.S., the center light part head is looking slightly down and to the right. There’s even an ear there (yeah, sure there is....)

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

You’re nuts but a nice kind of nuts. /SARC

Orion is my favorite constellation too. Love the Belt area and the global cluster you can see with the naked eye on a clear winter night.

[fieldmarshaldj]

(another) *APOD ping*

[rfp1234]

It looks like a big ape in profile, looking toward the right. Eye at upper left, snout to the right, pink lips at lower center.

[mabarker1]

[jmacusa]

Once and a while I take my 6 inch Newtonian refractor scope and look at the beauty of the Orion Nebula. I especially like to zoom in on the “Trapezium’’. The massive star ‘’nursery’’ at it center.

[JudgemAll]

Seems like refractors provide better color transmission.

[smartymarty]

Yes, it looks like Jimmy Durante, and someone on the left is feeding him a hamburger.

[F450-V10]

I see a swordsman in the lower left dust lanes. Amazing how the human eye seeks faces and shapes.

[SgtHooper]

Biden’s thoughts?

[MtnClimber]

Biden’s thoughts?

Biden would step out onto his porch with his twice barreled shotgun and fire two blasts into the sky.

[Starcitizen]

Just waiting for my S-II filter to do Hubble-style images on my 12” Meade

[jmacusa]

I’ve got to get a new laser ranger finder for mine.

[jmacusa]

I got this one at a yard sale. Forget how much I paid for it, maybe $20. I don't think the person realized what they had. It has a built in electric counter motor to keep it aligned. My back yard faces due east. The Atlantic Ocean is about 8 miles from my back door and even though I'm a t sea level I never have to worry about light pollution.

[LastDayz]

Looks to be a figure in a flowing robe to the right of center.

[LastDayz]

In addition, there appears to be a distinct face directly and slightly right above center.

Distinct eye, nose, mouth with lips.

Awesome pic.

[JudgemAll]

What a steal