Posted on 07/25/2015 1:58:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: The Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, is easy to find with a small telescope, a well known stop in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. But where visible light pictures show the nebula divided into three parts by dark, obscuring dust lanes, this penetrating infrared image reveals filaments of glowing dust clouds and newborn stars. The spectacular false-color view is courtesy of the Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers have used the Spitzer infrared image data to count newborn and embryonic stars which otherwise can lie hidden in the natal dust and gas clouds of this intriguing stellar nursery. As seen here, the Trifid is about 30 light-years across and lies only 5,500 light-years away.
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[Credit: J. Rho (SSC/Caltech), JPL-Caltech, NASA]
The Big One is unavailable (at least it is to me) -- "Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /apod/image/1507/trifid_spitzerR.jpg on this server."
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The Day of the Trifids...you do not have access to secret stuff!
“...you do not have access to secret stuff!”
Spray it down with a little seawater.
works every time! LOL!
;’D
Oh My! The Full Movie!
I am Verklempt!
Thanks, General! :-)
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