Posted on 04/20/2025 2:44:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion. Long exposure, multi-wavelength images like this, however, show the Orion Nebula to be a busy neighborhood of young stars, hot gas, and dark dust. This digital composite features not only three colors of visible light but four colors of infrared light taken by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope as well. The power behind much of the Orion Nebula (M42) is the Trapezium - four of the brightest stars in the nebula. Many of the filamentary structures visible are actually shock waves - fronts where fast moving material encounters slow moving gas. The Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located about 1500 light years away in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.
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It looks like a possum fighting a bull.
Over a cold bottle of Coca Cola.
Looks like a little critter peeking out of a hole in a tree.
Only a can of Red Bull would give you wings like that.
Wow.
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A beaver.
It looks like a COVID - infected pangolin fighting a tiger shark that just sank a boat carrying triple cheeseburgers.
thats quite the imagination you have! lol ...took me a while but I found the little possum face!!
(Take it easy on the Psilocybin!...)
Yeah, they said that crap'd come back to haint me later in life.. d;^)
You knowâŠ..youâre right!
Since you found the little possum face, you win todayâs prize!
A free bowl of beans at Willyâs Nightclub And Skunk Skinning Shop in my adopted hometown of Toadsuck, Arkansas!
Bones Appetite!
The Sword of Orion. The Trapezium stars are not visible in this image, they are covered by nebulosity. Quite a sight in a telescope of any size. Even a pair of binoculars will show a glow, and if one knows where to look in moderately dark skies, it can certainly be seen naked eye. It is a remarkable sight to see in a telescope, the larger the better. One of the Winter skyâs best objects.
The nipple of the big red breast on the right has a fox face.
Oh, weâre taking you to the school therapist right now!
(It does kind of look like that, though.)
:P
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