[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: Steve Cannistra (StarryWonders)]

[econjack]

1500 light years away! The light we are seeing today occurred about when Nineveh (Babylonian capital) was captured, thus marking the end of the Assyrian Empire. The number of miles are so big, they are even more difficult to grasp than Obama’s debt.

[GATOR NAVY]

I think it’s interesting that the two upper nebula appear almost the same in brightness but one is significantly further away.

[Conan the Librarian]

Hey! I was just looking at that on Thursday night.

The picture is upside down.

In the photo, the nebula on the left is the Flaming Star Nebula. The Flaming star (brightest one in the area, is AE Aurigae. It is thought to be a cast of from the Great Orion Nebula and is cutting a path through the gas cloud.