Orion Nebula

[Sowelu]

Orion Nebula: The Hubble View
Credit:

[/b] NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and
The Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team [/center]

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. This detailed image of the Orion Nebula is the sharpest ever, constructed using data from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys and the European Southern Observatory's La Silla 2.2 meter telescope. The mosaic contains a billion pixels at full resolution and reveals about 3,000 stars. In apparent size, the picture is as large as the Full Moon. At the distance of M42 it spans thirteen light-years.

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[Edward]

at 1,500 light years away and the image we see would be like looking at the moon in our night sky in realitive comparison and there is 3,000 stars they said in this snipet of the sky alone? Well I think one can build a case for over a trillion stars in are galaxy easyly and with those numbers alone, how could any thinking scientist or dogmatic religious person come to a conclusion that we are still the only thinking beings in this Milkway Galaxy?

By the way, I love this picture. I am totally fascinated by the stars and gases and it's color's.

Peace, Love and Enlightenment,

Ed

[dutchraven]

wow.. there's lots of humanoid faces in that pic to be discovered..

I can see about five of them

If anything else my imagination is running on high these days..