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Fantastic work Bert.. As I understand it, if the Tarantula was as close to us as M42, The tarantula would span the entire night sky, and be bright enough to cast shadows!
The visual representation of M42/Eta Car/Tarantulas "Actual" size difference is amazing.. Its great to see what kind of a difference perspective can make.....
I think if you were going to call Orion "Great" from now on, you'd want to be referring to the entire Orion molecular cloud... M42/IC434/NGC2040/M78 and Barnard's loop... that, is a great big molecular cloud... !
Last edited by AlexN; 01-01-2010 at 12:45 PM.
Reason: eye donnt speel gud.
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