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3pisces

#1 Posted : Friday, July 23, 2010 8:59:57 AM(UTC)

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I thought you might like this new picture of Orion Jim :)

news.discovery.com/space/big-pic-spitzer-baby-star-nest-orion-nebula.html

Whether you want it or not THEY are coming...PESTILENCE

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3pisces		#2 Posted : Friday, July 23, 2010 9:01:30 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Medals: Groups: Member, Moderator Joined: 2/18/2008(UTC) Posts: 1,318 Points: 957 Location: Canada		April 1, 2010 -- Like a web filled with a nest of baby spiders, this stunning image of the Orion nebula has a dense colony of very young stars, eating the surrounding web of gas, generating a beautiful display of stellar light for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to observe. This new image was only possible after the orbital observatory ran out of coolant in May 2009, beginning a new observing campaign. The telescope's instruments have to be cooled to very low temperatures to allow it to observe in infrared wavelengths, and since running out of its liquid helium supply, Spitzer has started its extended "Warm Mission." Only two of the shortest-wavelength instruments are now working at the temperature of 30 Kelvin (-406 F), but longer observing campaigns are now possible, watching this cluster of stars being born and varying in brightness. For a detailed explanation behind what Spitzer is showing us, read "Spitzer Sheds Light on Colony of Baby Stars." But for now, scroll down and enjoy the depth and detail of this most recent view inside the Orion Nebula, including some 1,500 young variable stars Spitzer has studied: MORE: Spitzer Sheds Light on Colony of Baby Stars Whether you want it or not THEY are coming...PESTILENCE
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Jim		#3 Posted : Friday, July 23, 2010 9:17:59 AM(UTC)
Rank: Administration Medals: Groups: Member, Moderator, Administration Joined: 2/18/2008(UTC) Posts: 4,116 Points: 5,849 Location: Texas Was thanked: 18 time(s) in 18 post(s)		3pisces wrote: I thought you might like this new picture of Orion Jim :) news.discovery.com/space/big-pic-spitzer-baby-star-nest-orion-nebula.html That's very cool ... Thanks :D Here's another version of yours. Too big to even shrink down here. antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0608/orion_spitzer_f.jpg I "shrunkded" it down LOL "...men are not so far from the truth as they generally believe. Their greatest error is in searching for it where it is not, and in attaching it to forms; whereas, they ought, on the contrary, to avoid form in order to dwell upon the essence." Fabre D'Olivet Rather than STOP and say, 'Woops! I'm headed in the wrong direction,’ we tend to place a premium on projecting a consistent image of ourselves and try to rationalize our initial decision despite increasing evidence suggesting we ought to do the contrary. B M Staw … many people today don't want honest answers insofar as 'honest’ means 'unpleasant’ or 'disturbing.’ They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. — Louis Kronenberger Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. — Francis Bacon "How to teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly." ... "The easy thing is to commit the whole community to the devil and retire again into the heavenly rock dwelling, close the door, and make it fast." — Joseph Campbell
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