Astronomy Picture of the Day - M42: The Great Nebula in Orion

NASA ^ | 4 Nov, 2024 | Credit & Copyright: Fényes Lóránd

[MtnClimber]

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[MtnClimber]

[MtnClimber]

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[Red Badger]

Looks like ET ...........

[simpson96]

M42 is always a crowd pleaser.

[mazz44]

NASA is a propagandist organization. These pictures or CGI creations. Everything that is observed is within the boundaries of our system)Firmament. The colors, as depicted, are fake creations produced by computer artists.

[Steely Tom]

Oh wow. M42 is the tip of Orion’s... ah... sword.

[BlueLancer]

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off (the) shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”

[BenLurkin]

I see a dove.

[spankalib]

Job 9:9
Which maketh Arcturus,
Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Job 38:31
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Amo 5:8
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

[No name given]

Wow.

[telescope115]

It’s a celestial showpiece! If you know just where to look in the winter sky at night, you’ll see it without any optical aid. Binoculars make it stand out. The bigger the telescope used to observe it, the more light is gathered in and the more of it you can see.

[oldplayer]

BlueLancer, that was a great movie.

[telescope115]

Not on THIS object. Thousands of amateur astronomers have photographed it and it looks just the same. The red you see in the photo is how hydrogen gas looks after a long exposure is taken. Very large telescopes (20”-30” in diameter)
Show a hint of the colors, but a really dark sky is needed for it to stand out.
Virtually no light pollution.

[MayflowerMadam]

“These pictures or CGI creations. ... The colors, as depicted, are fake creations produced by computer artists.”

Yes. DH is an astro-photographer, and after he’s captured images with the telescope, he can process them to look many different ways. (He’s not AI - LOL!) The stuff NASA puts out there is art, not science. And they’ve been doing this for decades for the “oooh and aaah” factor.

[dragnet2]

NASA is a propagandist organization. These pictures or CGI creations. The colors, as depicted, are fake creations produced by computer artists.

1. The image in this article was not produced by NASA.

2. My image below of M42 was not produced by a computer artists

3. I can assure you my image below was not a Computer Generated Image, or CGI.

[telescope115]

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[telescope115]

Nice image!

[dragnet2]

[mombonn]

Spectacular!