Posted on 04/12/2021 5:52:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What lights up the Flame Nebula? Fifteen hundred light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears, on the left, like a billowing fire. But fire, the rapid acquisition of oxygen, is not what makes this Flame glow. Rather the bright star Alnitak, the easternmost star in the Belt of Orion visible on the far left, shines energetic light into the Flame that knocks electrons away from the great clouds of hydrogen gas that reside there. Much of the glow results when the electrons and ionized hydrogen recombine. The featured picture of the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) was taken across three visible color bands with detail added by a long duration exposure taken in light emitted only by hydrogen. The Flame Nebula is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, a star-forming region that includes the famous Horsehead Nebula.
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“What lights up the Flame Nebula?”
Marie Osmond?
Cat is “long duration”.
To me, it looks like ET surfing on John Kerry’s head.
Kinda looks like a pelvic bone complete with the coccyx bone.
There is no way we can be the only forms of life. How many suns are out there with equidistant planets as ours are out there. I suppose we all kill ourselves off one way or another before we become technologically advanced enough to find out.
We always called it the Oak Tree. Don’t know who came up with the flame nebula stuff.
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
I see a bunny.........................
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