The NGC 3576 Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory), Macedon Ranges Observatory
Posted on 03/26/2008 4:19:49 PM PDT by sig226
Explanation: An intriguing and beautiful nebula, NGC 3576 drifts through the Sagittarius arm of our spiral Milky Way Galaxy. Within the region, episodes of star formation are thought to contribute to the complex and suggestive shapes. Powerful winds from the nebula's embedded, young, massive stars shape the looping filaments. The dramatic false-color image also highlights the contributions of hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen, energized by intense ultraviolet radiation, to the nebular glow. But the glow also silhouettes dense clouds of dust and gas. For example, the two condensing dark clouds near the top of the picture offer potential sites for the formation of new stars. NGC 3576 itself is about 100 light-years across and 9,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina, not far on the sky from the famous Eta Carinae Nebula. Near the left edge of the picture is NGC 3603, a much larger but more distant star forming region.
Thanks, sig. Beautiful picture.
Okay...call me weird, but in this picture I see someone that looks like Jesus with his right arm in the air.
I agree. Put it on EBAY, QUICK!
bttt...Incredible image, that should not be tucked away in chat.
Thanks.
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Nothing wierd about it. I don’t know how anyone can look at space and not see evidence of God.
‘mkay. Lol Actually, I see a laughing reindeer, antlers and all.
Btw; if one were standing in outerspace would you actually see these beautiful gases that make up these nebulas or is that just because they’re taken with a special lens or something?
The colors usually are added or amplified. Some of the photos use multiple exposures with different filters to enhance the color. Others use spectroscopic anaylsis to determine what elements produced the light. Color is added based on the colors those elements would produce. You wouldn’t see the colors from space, they’re too faint. The process does allow some artistic “interpretation.” But they look so cool . . . :)
Looks like a woman riding a cow.
a woman riding a cow.
a reindeer.
Jesus.
Hey, you mean you’all don’t see that whole lurid sexual thing?
I mean it’s as plain as noses on your face.
Britney Spears in a prom gown.
Mae West bending over backwards eating an Ice cream cone.
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