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The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful place (What is NASA telling us here ?)
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| 04/09/27
Posted on 09/27/2004 4:23:35 PM PDT by Truth666
2004 September 27
The Great Nebula in Orion
Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip
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, digitally sharpened images like this, however, show the Orion Nebula to be a busy neighborhood of young stars, hot gas, and dark dust.
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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: message; space
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What is NASA telling us here, by "digitally sharpening images like this" ?
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:23:36 PM PDT
by
Truth666
To: Truth666
Damn....sharpened it down to nothing.
To: Truth666
What is NASA telling us here, by "digitally sharpening images like this" ? Pictures of outer space are really cool?
To: Truth666
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:25:29 PM PDT
by
Truth666
To: Truth666
That really is very cool.
To: Truth666
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:26:43 PM PDT
by
riri
To: Truth666
I see...a cosmic wartwog that just spat up a jellyfish. (Stare at it a while; you'll eventually see it.)
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:29:33 PM PDT
by
Ironclad
(O Tempora! O Mores!)
To: riri
To: Psycho_Bunny
PB, thanks for posting APOD. That way, I don't have to :-)
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:31:52 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Face it folks, the Great Experiment is over.)
To: Ironclad
Looks like the cover of Metallicas "Load" CD. Metallicats in space?
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:32:34 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The economy won't matter if you're dead.)
To: Truth666
The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful... A George Carlin routine:
"Tundalaya Breckenridge...my, what a colorful name."
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:40:17 PM PDT
by
FreedomFarmer
(Less carrot, more STICK!)
To: Truth666
NASA is saying that photographing a deep-space object with a telescope using a long exposure time and digital enhancement gives a better view than the naked eye.
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:42:04 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: Truth666
So what are YOU telling us that NASA telling us here, by "digitally sharpening images like this" ?
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:50:13 PM PDT
by
TomB
("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
To: Truth666
The only thing I care about is, do the Orions plan on voting republican this year?
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:57:58 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: Truth666
Careful you don't back into that digital sharpener like I did !!!
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posted on
09/27/2004 4:58:06 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Truth666
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posted on
09/27/2004 5:10:29 PM PDT
by
hershey
To: Truth666
Almost looks like an embryo.
To: Truth666
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posted on
09/27/2004 5:15:18 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Truth666
Cool. Just made it my background on my puter.
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posted on
09/27/2004 5:26:06 PM PDT
by
Arkie2
To: Psycho_Bunny
Wow. That's a great link. My boy and I are going to be checking that out when he gets home from school.
Here's one pic in particular that is simply incredible:
When you realize what's happening here, it simply makes your hair stand on end. Power and violence beyond our ability to comprehend.
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posted on
09/28/2004 6:14:45 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(The Constitution defines Conservatism.)
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