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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.
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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]
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posted on
06/05/2013 6:15:07 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
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posted on
06/05/2013 6:17:32 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: SunkenCiv
Ah....Astronomy!
I LOVE it!
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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)
To: SunkenCiv
Sounds explody. I hope it don’t catch fire.
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posted on
06/05/2013 6:20:21 PM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: SunkenCiv
Ooh, new screen background.
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posted on
06/05/2013 6:21:28 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like some kind of creature with flowing wings. And kind of looks like someone riding on it.
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posted on
06/05/2013 6:24:47 PM PDT
by
randita
To: SunkenCiv
Where’s Horsey? I can never find it on APODS reruns:(
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posted on
06/05/2013 6:56:47 PM PDT
by
X-FID
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/05/2013 7:29:57 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
To: Slyfox
What a wonderful analogy!
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posted on
06/05/2013 9:37:45 PM PDT
by
tanuki
(Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
To: SunkenCiv
Its great to see home again! Thanks for the picture.
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posted on
06/05/2013 9:41:06 PM PDT
by
Jay Redhawk
(Zombies are just intelligent, good looking democrats.)
To: SunkenCiv
There’s a “Uranus in methane” joke in here somewhere.
To: martin_fierro
Pretty much everywhere — I mean, there are moons around Uranus.
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posted on
06/07/2013 5:39:06 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: left that other site; BitWielder1
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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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