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The Trifid Nebula in Stars and Dust

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  1. TheGarbageMan TheGarbageMan is offline

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    Jul 7th, 2009 (7/7/2009 2:23pm)



    Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona

    Explanation: Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Trifid Nebula. Also known as M20, this photogenic nebula is visible with good binoculars towards the constellation of Sagittarius. The energetic processes of star formation create not only the colors but the chaos. The red-glowing gas results from high-energy starlight striking interstellar hydrogen gas. The dark dust filaments that lace M20 were created in the atmospheres of cool giant stars and in the debris from supernovae explosions. Which bright young stars light up the blue reflection nebula is still being investigated. The light from M20 we see today left perhaps 3,000 years ago, although the exact distance remains unknown. Light takes about 50 years to cross M20.

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    Jul 7th, 2009 (7/7/2009 2:27pm) in reply to TheGarbageMan

    <right click>, "view image"... don't bitch about picture sizing because you lose image quality when you do that... this is one of the sickest nebulas ive seen
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    Jul 7th, 2009 (7/7/2009 2:27pm) in reply to TheGarbageMan

    you can shoot straight through
    with rays of dark matter
    just before they kick out
    they kick out the ladder
    with rays of dark matter
     
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    Jul 7th, 2009 (7/7/2009 2:29pm) in reply to funnygut

    i'm badder than a nebula
    striking with a clubula
    hubba hubula
    wowwa weewa
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    Jul 7th, 2009 (7/7/2009 2:51pm) in reply to TheGarbageMan

    Yes that is one sexy nebula sir.

    However, I have yet to see anything that tops The Pillars of Creation from The Eagle Nebula



    The tallest pillar is 4 light yrs from top to bottom. Thats about 27 <span>trillion</span> miles, the same distance as it is from our solar system to the nearest star.

    Inside these cloudy, dusty pillars new stars and new solar systems with new planets are being formed.

    This stuff is unreal, to say the least, and makes me wonder how intelligent, rational people can still think some magical supernatural being snapped his fingers and created us.
     
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