Saturday, January 31, 2009

Gaseous Clouds in Space

This is the most awe-inspiring photo of space I've seen, the Orion Nebula photographed from the Hubbell space telescope. The different colors are elements, blue is zinc, so there's a cloud of zinc so large that it encompasses fifty or more stars!

This image is my desktop wallpaper off and on, I rotate this with one of the moon above some mission bells out west, perhaps San Xavier du Bac near Tucson.

The San Francisco Astronomical Society had a bumper sticker, which read "Are there clouds of gas around Uranus?"

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