Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars
Posted on August 6, 2010, 9:27AM.
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Orion Nebula (M42, NGC 1976) Emission Nebula
Constellation: Orion
Distance: The distance to the Orion Nebula is 1,500 light-years (460 parsecs).
Dimensions:The image is 30 arcminutes (13 light-years or 4.0 parsecs) square.
This image is a composite mosaic of many separate expposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO La Silla 2.2 meter telescope using several different filters isolating the light of specific elements or of specific broad wavelength ranges. The color arises by assigning different hues (colors), to each monochromatic image.In this case the colors are:
HST: F658N Ha red/orange
F850LP z red
F775W i red
F555W V green
F435W B blue ESO MPI 2.2m La Silla WFI Dec. 11, 2001:
NB#Halpha/7_ESO856 Ha red
NB#SIIr/8_ESO857 [S II] red
NB#OIII/8_ESO859 [O III] green
BB#B/99_ESO842 B blue
Tags: Collections, Nebula, Orion, Space, Stars, Photography, Aviation, NASA
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Actually I think the Hubble is just a expensive animation program. Really, they just randomize the input and add some red here some blue there and voila instant Nebula. (just kidding)
That's a picture to remind us what an incredible universe we live in... and how remarkably small our little bit is!
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