RE: The Cone and Fox Fur Nebula, NGC 2264
May 19, 2015 at 3:23 am
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2015 at 3:24 am by orogenicman.)
(May 18, 2015 at 11:46 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: It all looks so beautiful
I wish there was a way we could travel through space really fast and visit some of these other places, Mass Effect style. We'll never live to see that unfortunately.
Something a lot of people don't understand are the concepts of distance in space, and of perspective, and space environments. When you look at my image, above, you see a lot of ionized hydrogen emission along with a lot of dark dust. In order to see that stuff, I have to do long exposures, because it is so very faint (only the largest telescopes show this nebula visually). If you could travel there, you would likely be fried by cosmic radiation (because those young stars are emitting a huge amount of UV light, x-rays, and ionizing radiation, which is sculpting those clouds of gas and dust), if you didn't get completely pulverized by all the particles in the region. These are stellar nurseries - not placed you'd want to visit (because they are some of the most violent places in the galaxy), or could visit even if you could travel the distance. But they certainly are beautiful to look at.
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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