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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur
NASA ^ | June 04, 2013 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 06/05/2013 6:15:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Explanation: Few astronomical sights excite the imagination like the nearby stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud. Many of the filamentary structures visible in the above image are actually shock waves - fronts where fast moving material encounters slow moving gas. The Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located about 1500 light years away in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye just below and to the left of the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. The above image shows the nebula in three colors specifically emitted by hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur gas. The whole Orion Nebula cloud complex, which includes the Horsehead Nebula, will slowly disperse over the next 100,000 years.

June 04, 2013

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; horseheadnebula; nebula; orion; orionnebula; science
[Credit & Copyright: César Blanco González]

1 posted on 06/05/2013 6:15:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
The big one.

2 posted on 06/05/2013 6:17:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ah....Astronomy!
I LOVE it!


3 posted on 06/05/2013 6:19:46 PM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sounds explody. I hope it don’t catch fire.


4 posted on 06/05/2013 6:20:21 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv
Ooh, new screen background.

5 posted on 06/05/2013 6:21:28 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: SunkenCiv

Looks like some kind of creature with flowing wings. And kind of looks like someone riding on it.


6 posted on 06/05/2013 6:24:47 PM PDT by randita
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To: SunkenCiv

Where’s Horsey? I can never find it on APODS reruns:(


7 posted on 06/05/2013 6:56:47 PM PDT by X-FID
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To: SunkenCiv

8 posted on 06/05/2013 7:29:57 PM PDT by Slyfox (Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
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To: Slyfox

What a wonderful analogy!


9 posted on 06/05/2013 9:37:45 PM PDT by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Its great to see home again! Thanks for the picture.


10 posted on 06/05/2013 9:41:06 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Zombies are just intelligent, good looking democrats.)
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To: SunkenCiv

There’s a “Uranus in methane” joke in here somewhere.


11 posted on 06/06/2013 7:29:58 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

Pretty much everywhere — I mean, there are moons around Uranus.


12 posted on 06/07/2013 5:39:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: left that other site; BitWielder1

Thanks!


13 posted on 06/07/2013 5:51:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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