Hubble telescope snaps amazing nebula photo (1 Viewer)

[Serenity]

Oh wow. Just beautiful.

For the first time the world's most powerful telescope has lifted the blanket of gas and dust covering the Horsehead nebula to reveal the newborn stars buried inside.Using infrared light, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided an incredible view inside part of one of the world's most well-known constellations.

The Horsehead nebula, a dark dust cloud in the shape of a horse’s head, is about 1500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. The nebula is known as a stellar nursery as it is where stars are formed. The photo was released yesterday to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Hubble telescope's launch.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2013/04/22/07/36/hubble-telescope-snaps-stunning-nebula-photo

 

[ecofarm]

When I first done seen it, I thought about avatar for a second.

 

[shlunka]

Looks like the Sovietian Civilization from Betelgeuse is test firing their Inter Cosmic Ballistic Missiles again....

 

[MoSurveyor]

When I first done seen it, I thought about avatar for a second.

At night in the jungle or ...?

 

[ecofarm]

At night in the jungle or ...?

? Forest perhaps.

I was alluding to humorous ignorance in preface of honest contemplation. It's red, white and blue and has stars; perhaps only resolution so quickly casts aside the thought.

 

[Helix]

it's gonna take forever to clean that up.

 

[MoSurveyor]

it's gonna take forever to clean that up.

Nah - only a few billion years ...

 

[mbig]

Useful for pix/wallpaper and archive going back every day to 1995:
Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

or search
APOD Text Search
(68 for 'horsehead')

You really see the horsehead, and neck, in this one.
APOD: 2010 May 13 - The Magnificent Horsehead Nebula

Or wonderful color separation on October 7, 2003
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031007.html