Posted on 03/26/2014 7:12:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: An eerie blue glow and ominous columns of dark dust highlight M78 and other bright reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion. The dark filamentary dust not only absorbs light, but also reflects the light of several bright blue stars that formed recently in the nebula. Of the two reflection nebulas pictured above, the more famous nebula is M78, in the image center, while NGC 2071 can be seen to its lower left. The same type of scattering that colors the daytime sky further enhances the blue color. M78 is about five light-years across and visible through a small telescope. M78 appears above only as it was 1600 years ago, however, because that is how long it takes light to go from there to here. M78 belongs to the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex that contains the Great Nebula in Orion and the Horsehead Nebula.
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[Credit & Copyright: Ian Sharp]
Another Nice one! Thank You, Sunky!
Thank you for the ping and post, Mr. Civilizations.
I see that they mention that this is 1600-year-old news, what we were talking about in yesterday’s Orion nebula APOD.
Well, I’m not going to let it eat me alive that I will never know what it looks like there right now. But I kinda wish I could see it.
Sigh...
It’s “Dust Cloud Week” on the APoD Channel .....
So beautiful.
Thank you so much, SunkenCiv.
Yeah, I love me some nebulas.
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