circumpolar
21-02-2007, 09:10 PM
I found this pic on Astronomy Picture of the Day. It is an area of the Carina Nebula environs.
I think it looks as though we have been given the finger! :rofl:
Maybe there is someone up there.:rolleyes:
Explanation: This dense cloud of gas and dust is being deleted. Likely, within a few million years, the intense light from bright stars will have boiled it away completely. Stars not yet formed in the molecular cloud (http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/poster/bigbang3.html)'s interior will then stop growing. The cloud has broken off of part of the greater Carina Nebula (http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap010617.html), a star forming region about 8000 light years (http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cosmic_distance.html) away. Newly formed stars are visible (http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/2000/06/image/a) nearby, their images reddened by blue light being preferentially scattered by the pervasive dust (http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap010813.html). This unusually-coloured image (http://heritage.stsci.edu/2000/06/caption.html) spans about two light years (http://www.howstuffworks.com/question94.htm) and was taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap010806.html) in 1999. This Carina (http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap010717.html) sub-cloud is particularly striking partly because its clear definition stimulates the human imagination (e.g. it could be perceived as a superhero flying through a cloud, arm up, with a saved person in tow below).
I think it looks as though we have been given the finger! :rofl:
Maybe there is someone up there.:rolleyes:
Explanation: This dense cloud of gas and dust is being deleted. Likely, within a few million years, the intense light from bright stars will have boiled it away completely. Stars not yet formed in the molecular cloud (http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/poster/bigbang3.html)'s interior will then stop growing. The cloud has broken off of part of the greater Carina Nebula (http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap010617.html), a star forming region about 8000 light years (http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cosmic_distance.html) away. Newly formed stars are visible (http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/2000/06/image/a) nearby, their images reddened by blue light being preferentially scattered by the pervasive dust (http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap010813.html). This unusually-coloured image (http://heritage.stsci.edu/2000/06/caption.html) spans about two light years (http://www.howstuffworks.com/question94.htm) and was taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap010806.html) in 1999. This Carina (http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap010717.html) sub-cloud is particularly striking partly because its clear definition stimulates the human imagination (e.g. it could be perceived as a superhero flying through a cloud, arm up, with a saved person in tow below).