Just when I start to get caught up in complaining about how boring things are I come across stuff like this. Like Carl Sagan once said " We stand on the edge of forever".
In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. This turbulent star formation region is one of astronomy's most dramatic and photogenic celestial objects. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. These stars reside in a dramatic dust-and-gas landscape of plateaus, mountains, and valleys that are reminiscent of the Grand Canyon. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars that are shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. Credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
4 comments:
holly smokes!! its mr. anderson. how have you been?
great blogg by the way.
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Hey!!! Good to see, er... read you too! Nice to see you are still drawing. I like your blog too!
The Hubble sure takes good pictures. Totally awe inspiring stuff. It's no wonder some scientists take their love of the cosmos to the point of faith, looking at pictures like that. But nothing compares to actually going there...
Doc, you speak as one who has been to the edge and back my son.
One man, I am well as I hope you are too?
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