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Orion Nebula - 2003-04-02  
Even with a good telescope you won't come across a sight quite like this one. It is a familiar object though, the grand stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. But the striking picture combines images taken through three separate filters, each designed to record different emission lines -- light from sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms glowing in the tenuous nebular gas. In this image, sulfur is red, hydrogen is green, and oxygen is blue, a color scheme used in images of other astronomical nebulae as well. While very different from what the eye sees, the image is still both beautiful and scientifically valuable, tracing elements and conditions within the nearby star forming region.


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Orion Nebula....words can't describe how beautiful.


Posted by Alice at 10:36 PM EST on May 4th, '07
I love this image, I have just created my own website, and this is what I used as the background. The site is www.poetryisreborn.com Also, I have posted much of my poetry on the site, including a poem called Orion. That poem is at www.poetryisreborn.com/poetry/orion. Alice said that words cannot describe this nebula, but I have tried.