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Good morning RP. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Carina Nebula Panorama from Hubble." Details are labeled when you mouse over the photo on the APOD site. The Carina Nebula is home to streams of hot gas, pools of cool gas, knots of dark globules, and pillars of dense dusty interstellar matter, making it one of the largest star-forming regions in the night sky. This 48-picture mosaic shows how stars continually reshape the nebula with their energetic light, outflowing stellar winds, and ultimately by ending their lives in supernova explosions. Visible below 20º N latitude (Cynthia Croft has the best seat) near the constellation Carina, entire nebula spans over 450 light years and lies about 8,500 light-years away.
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More great stuff- thanks and good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
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Hubble Space Telescope: Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
A team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. It is a 50-light-year- wide view...
Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price!!! What a glorious panoramic image of the Carina Nebula!!! I found a comparable short video of it and here is a backgrounder that accompanied the Video...
"A team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. It is a 50-light-year- wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a maelstrom of star birth is taking place. This is a color version of a zoom into and pan across the heart of the Carina Nebula. The nebula's fantasy-like landscape is sculpted by the intense pressure of starlight from monster stars, their star clusters, and stellar winds of charged particles. The glowing edge of a Bok globule nicknamed the "caterpillar" indicates that it is being photoionized by the hottest stars in the cluster. Stars may form inside such dusty cocoons. The top of the Keyhole Nebula, the most prominent feature embedded inside Carina, is seen. Pillars of cold hydrogen gas tower above the surface of the molecular cloud at the edge of the nebula." Space VIdeos Published Feb. 13, 2019.
https://youtu.be/kfC9RlYd0-o
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"A team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. It is a 50-light-year- wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a maelstrom of star birth is taking place. This is a color version of a zoom into and pan across the heart of the Carina Nebula. The nebula's fantasy-like landscape is sculpted by the intense pressure of starlight from monster stars, their star clusters, and stellar winds of charged particles. The glowing edge of a Bok globule nicknamed the "caterpillar" indicates that it is being photoionized by the hottest stars in the cluster. Stars may form inside such dusty cocoons. The top of the Keyhole Nebula, the most prominent feature embedded inside Carina, is seen. Pillars of cold hydrogen gas tower above the surface of the molecular cloud at the edge of the nebula." Space VIdeos Published Feb. 13, 2019.
https://youtu.be/kfC9RlYd0-o
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Good Morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price I'm back to a point now in my email notifications that I can respond to great Astronomy Pictures of the Day once again. You didn't disappoint while I ws on my 14-day ride across America Bill - thanks and have a great Sunday afternoon!
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