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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble
NASA ^
| April 22, 2013
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 04/22/2013 6:15:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: While drifting through the cosmos, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud became sculpted by stellar winds and radiation to assume a recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is embedded in the vast and complex Orion Nebula (M42). A potentially rewarding but difficult object to view personally with a small telescope, the above gorgeously detailed image was recently taken in infrared light by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope in honor of the 23rd anniversary of Hubble's launch. The dark molecular cloud, roughly 1,500 light years distant, is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is seen above primarily because it is backlit by the nearby massive star Sigma Orionis. The Horsehead Nebula will slowly shift its apparent shape over the next few million years and will eventually be destroyed by the high energy starlight.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; cool; horseheadnebula; hst; m42; nebula; nebulas; orionnebula; science; sigmaorionis
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posted on
04/22/2013 6:15:40 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
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posted on
04/22/2013 6:17:00 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks for posting this.
I saw the picture on APOD last night.
Isn’t it just beautiful ?
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posted on
04/22/2013 6:19:28 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: SunkenCiv
That is some incredible resolution.
To: SunkenCiv
One of the Very BEST!
Thanks, Sunky!
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posted on
04/22/2013 6:22:11 PM PDT
by
left that other site
((Ban the ubiquitous and deadly solvent, Di-hydrogen monoxide!!!))
To: bigheadfred
I’m guessing they use a high pass filter in post processing to bring out the texture.
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posted on
04/22/2013 6:23:44 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
To: SunkenCiv
And to think that there are educated people who are *convinced* that there’s no God.
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posted on
04/22/2013 6:27:30 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
To: SunkenCiv
Digital sensors on cameras let us see amazing thing nowadays.
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posted on
04/22/2013 6:57:46 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1, Half Baked 50c)
To: SunkenCiv
It’s gonna be gone in a few million years? Eh......Cher will probably still be around.
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posted on
04/22/2013 7:08:47 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: SunkenCiv
It looks like Jar Jar Binks
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posted on
04/22/2013 7:09:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/22/2013 7:12:16 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(APOD Bump)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/22/2013 7:18:01 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/22/2013 7:21:18 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: SunkenCiv
that is just plain creepy looking, especially the fleshy color. my imagination is going 4-goose bozo sci-fi crazy.
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posted on
04/22/2013 7:31:17 PM PDT
by
bravo whiskey
(We should not fear our government. Our government shoud fear us.)
To: Gay State Conservative
“Canst thou....loose the bands of Orion?” Job 38:31
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posted on
04/22/2013 7:43:21 PM PDT
by
Zuriel
(Acts 2:38,39....nearly 2,000 years and still working today!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/22/2013 8:54:02 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin is smiling from hell)
To: SunkenCiv
Bizarre. Amazing! Beautiful.
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posted on
04/22/2013 8:59:27 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
To: Slyfox
Well done, Slyfox. That thought ran through my head. Baby nebula.
life
Magnificent
BUMP!
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posted on
04/23/2013 4:48:13 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: SunkenCiv
Saw this one through a buddy’s 22 inch Obsession scope.
It didn’t look like that.
Telescope-wise, this is a really big sucker!
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04/23/2013 7:41:57 AM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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