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Good morning RP. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Stars, Dust, and Gas near NGC 3572." Where is NGC 3572? Near the Carina Nebula and southern constellation Carina (we're back, Cynthia Croft). By featuring specific colors emitted by hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, the resulting image speaks for itself.
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Good Tuesday Morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price!!!
When one spends just a few moments taking in the vast number of stars, large and small, points of light, clusters of matter, it makes one seem so infinitely small in comparison... Many of these spots of light, stars if you will, have solar systems of some ilk...solar systems with, perhaps, a planet like our Earth...positioned within that systems "Goldilocks" Zone, making it possible for there to be life!
Life that may or may not be exactly like our own, but life... It is sometimes difficult for us to imagine the vastness of space...the millions of light years or even parsecs (~3.26 light years to a parsec). ...but it is all out there and this phenomenal image only tends to diagrammatically pull us out into this vastness of space, if only in our minds eye... We have only to set our minds loose and visualize!
Have a wonderful Tuesday and thank you for this Post, Bill!!!
Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Maj Marty Hogan COL Mikel J. Burroughs Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Byron Howard Sr LTC Stephen F. Col Carl Whicker Maj Robert Thornton CWO3 Dennis M. LTC Wayne Brandon Sgt Deborah Cornatzer PO3 Bob McCord CW5 Jack Cardwell TSgt Joe C. SFC Stephen Lucas SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SP5 Mark Kuzinski SPC Douglas Bolton SPC Mark Huddleston
When one spends just a few moments taking in the vast number of stars, large and small, points of light, clusters of matter, it makes one seem so infinitely small in comparison... Many of these spots of light, stars if you will, have solar systems of some ilk...solar systems with, perhaps, a planet like our Earth...positioned within that systems "Goldilocks" Zone, making it possible for there to be life!
Life that may or may not be exactly like our own, but life... It is sometimes difficult for us to imagine the vastness of space...the millions of light years or even parsecs (~3.26 light years to a parsec). ...but it is all out there and this phenomenal image only tends to diagrammatically pull us out into this vastness of space, if only in our minds eye... We have only to set our minds loose and visualize!
Have a wonderful Tuesday and thank you for this Post, Bill!!!
Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Maj Marty Hogan COL Mikel J. Burroughs Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Byron Howard Sr LTC Stephen F. Col Carl Whicker Maj Robert Thornton CWO3 Dennis M. LTC Wayne Brandon Sgt Deborah Cornatzer PO3 Bob McCord CW5 Jack Cardwell TSgt Joe C. SFC Stephen Lucas SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SP5 Mark Kuzinski SPC Douglas Bolton SPC Mark Huddleston
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