Posted on 08/28/2014 10:03:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Open star cluster NGC 7380 is still embedded in its natal cloud of interstellar gas and dust popularly known as the Wizard Nebula. Seen with foreground and background stars along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy it lies some 8,000 light-years distant, toward the constellation Cepheus. A full moon would easily fit inside this telescopic view of the 4 million year young cluster and associated nebula, normally much too faint to be seen by eye. Made with telescope and camera firmly planted on Earth, the image reveals multi light-year sized shapes and structures within the Wizard in a color palette made popular in Hubble Space Telescope images. Recorded with narrowband filters, the visible wavelength light from the nebula's hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur atoms is transformed into green, blue, and red colors in the final digital composite. But there is still a trick up the Wizard's sleeve. Sliding your cursor over the image (or following this link) will make the stars disappear, leaving only the cosmic gas and dust of the Wizard Nebula.
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[Credit & Copyright: Michael Miller]
Another Beauty!
Thanks, Sunken Civ!
Your posts are appreciated as always.
A welcome break from the twisted world we’re stuck on.
Thank You so much Civ! The beauty contained within your posts is hearteningly leaps of gladness for my eyes and heart. The tapestry, of the wizard in such detail, with the hint of blue is breathtaking. Only one hand could have painted the wizard and only one hand painted all seen and unseen. What a Magnificent and Powerful God!
Gorgeous! Thanks for the post and ping!
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