Showing posts with label Hubbell telescope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hubbell telescope. Show all posts

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?"