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Good morning RP. Today's image is titled "Pan-STARRS Across the Lagoon." Pan-STARRS is the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System, a program within the Space Telescope Science Institute. The Lagoon Nebula is located in the constellation Sagittarius.
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This video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming in on the Lagoon Nebula as it can be seen with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescop...
Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price!!! What an outstanding image of the Lagoon Nebula!!! I loved the detail, Bill! I did find a short video of this same Lagoon Nebula which takes a viewer deeper into it... Enjoy! https://youtu.be/mLDIJO3-JeE
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Good afternoon, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA image of the day for April 25, 2019 entitled "Pan-STARRS Across the Lagoon."
Image: Pan-STARRS Across the Lagoon - image data credit - Pan-STARRS, Eric Coles, Martin Pugh - processing - Eric Coles
Wonderful swirls of magenta and red captured far-far-away by the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System program.
I am grateful for God's design of our earth's location so that we can view images like this
If we were much closer to the Milky Way center then we would be overwhelmed with light.
"Explanation: Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent, cosmic depths of the Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, the bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years distant. But it still makes for a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius, toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Dominated by the telltale red emission of ionized hydrogen atoms recombining with stripped electrons, this stunning view of the Lagoon is over 100 light-years across. At its center, the bright, compact, hourglass shape is gas ionized and sculpted by energetic radiation and extreme stellar winds from a massive young star. In fact, the many bright stars of open cluster NGC 6530 drift within the nebula, just formed in the Lagoon several million years ago. Broadband image data from Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System) was combined with narrowband data from amateur telescopes to create this wide and deep portrait of the Lagoon Nebula."
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Image: Pan-STARRS Across the Lagoon - image data credit - Pan-STARRS, Eric Coles, Martin Pugh - processing - Eric Coles
Wonderful swirls of magenta and red captured far-far-away by the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System program.
I am grateful for God's design of our earth's location so that we can view images like this
If we were much closer to the Milky Way center then we would be overwhelmed with light.
"Explanation: Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent, cosmic depths of the Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, the bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years distant. But it still makes for a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius, toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Dominated by the telltale red emission of ionized hydrogen atoms recombining with stripped electrons, this stunning view of the Lagoon is over 100 light-years across. At its center, the bright, compact, hourglass shape is gas ionized and sculpted by energetic radiation and extreme stellar winds from a massive young star. In fact, the many bright stars of open cluster NGC 6530 drift within the nebula, just formed in the Lagoon several million years ago. Broadband image data from Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System) was combined with narrowband data from amateur telescopes to create this wide and deep portrait of the Lagoon Nebula."
Thank you my friends Maj Marty Hogan and Sgt (Join to see) for mentioning me.
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