Orion Nebula

"Agrajag" (Agrajag) 05/18/2016 at 23:20 • Filed to: space

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Well done, universe. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Agrajag 05/18/2016 at 23:22

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Wouldn’t it be epic to look out your window and see that.

Agrajag > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 05/18/2016 at 23:28

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Yes, it absolutely would.

Steve in Manhattan > Agrajag 05/18/2016 at 23:32

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Back in the 90s I saw Carl Sagan while on a trip to Ithaca. He was driving a Rabbit convertible. He is my hero.

Agrajag > Steve in Manhattan 05/18/2016 at 23:39

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That’s awesome! He was a remarkable human being.

Steve in Manhattan > Agrajag 05/18/2016 at 23:43

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There was no mistaking that giant bobble head ... he taught at Cornell for years. If only I’d been smart enough to take all the astronomy courses there. Took honors astronomy at U MD and did OK, though.

Die-Trying > Agrajag 05/19/2016 at 00:28

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all those moments will be lost in time.......

TheRealBicycleBuck > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 05/19/2016 at 08:46

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It would, but that isn’t what you’d see. The lead image is a composite which includes four infra-red bands with false-color representations mixed in with the true color image. This is closer to what you’d see:

Not that it’s any less spectacular.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > TheRealBicycleBuck 05/19/2016 at 08:52

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I figured that’s not what it actually looked like

DynamicWeight > Agrajag 05/19/2016 at 12:08

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This is not what the universe looks like. The color is added later. You could never look out the window of a space ship and see this. It’s still cool.