Astronomy Picture of the Day - Orion Nebula: The Hubble View

APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 29 Jun, 2021 | Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Francisco Javier Pobes Serrano

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula. Also known as M42, the nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away. The Orion Nebula offers one of the best opportunities to study how stars are born partly because it is the nearest large star-forming region, but also because the nebula's energetic stars have blown away obscuring gas and dust clouds that would otherwise block our view - providing an intimate look at a range of ongoing stages of starbirth and evolution. The featured image of the Orion Nebula is among the sharpest ever, constructed using data from the Hubble Space Telescope. The entire Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.

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[minnesota_bound]

One day we could be envelope in a gas cloud like this on our journey around the galaxy.

[Fungi]

Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

[NohSpinZone]

"Only" 1500 light years away or 8.8 X 10¹⁵ miles. Oh yeah, let me go take a look for myself then.

[DannyTN]

That’s the view from the Spur or Orion.

[knarf]

This LOOKS lie it is fluid ... IS it ?

By "fluid" I mean, it is not just standing still but sort of moving around, like swirling gasses.

In a day or two, does it look different ?

[PIF]

If you look closely at the false color image, you can see numerous humanoid like faces and body parts.

[sasportas]

Orion the warrior constellation is mentioned quite a few times in the Bible, prophetic of the second coming of Christ. Not as a sacrificial lamb, as at his first coming, but as a conquering warrior.

[cephalopod]

There’s some motion due to gravity. IIRC there were no novae or explosive forces in it. But the movement would be imperceptible in a human lifespan except with specialized and powerful instruments.
Over a millennia or two, there might be some change. Over some 10k years there might be an observable star birth.

[Tucker39]

Reminds me of a pile of afterbirth on a dairy farm after a calving. The colors are all there.

[Deaf Smith]

Who is that dude on the right side with his mouth wide open?

[ETL]

If you look closely at the false color image, you can see numerous humanoid like faces and body parts.

Humanoid faces???

Whatever are you talking about???

[DannyTN]

Considering the astronomical distances, it’s not going to change a lot in a day or two.

But it it’s not outer space and just a spill or a Jackson Pollok painting, then yeah, it could change.

[ETL]

They might be a little easier to make in these reduced size images...

[Adder]

That’s Orion...

[ETL]

Hippy John Lennon type with large circular glasses

Chubby bald guy, fat cheeks

Dog-faced "humanoid", pointy ears, dark sunglasses

Side profile. Dark gray old man with black beard, dark red eye. Looks like combo of Vladimir Lenin and Satan, in foreground right arm colored red, pointy ears

Old man with white beard, mouth open

[ETL]

[Red Badger]

One day we could be envelope in a gas cloud like this on our journey around the galaxy.

Not if we stop eating Mexican food..................