Orion - Welcome Station toward home - 07/27/01 12:52 PM
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NASA Center: Hubble Space Telescope Center
Image # : PR95-45A
Date : 11/20/1995
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The Orion Nebula
Full Description
This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one
of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken
with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The picture, seamlessly composited from a mosaic of 15 separate fields,
covers an area of sky about five percent the area covered by the full
Moon. The seemingly infinite tapestry of rich detail revealed by Hubble
shows a churning turbulent star factory set within a maelstrom of
flowing, luminescent gas. Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is
still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of
the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster
associated with the nebula.
The mosaic reveals at least 153 glowing protoplanetary disks (first
discovered with the Hubble in 1992, and dubbed "proplyds") that are
believed to be embryonic solar systems that will eventually form
planets. (Our solar system has long been considered the relic of just
such a disk that formed around the newborn Sun). The proplyds that are
closest to the Trapezium stars (image center) are shedding some of
their gas and dust. The pressure of starlight from the hottest stars
forms "tails" which act like wind vanes pointing away from the
Trapezium. These tails result from the light from the star pushing the
dust and gas away from the outside layers of the proplyds.
In addition to the luminescent proplyds, seven disks are silhouetted
against the bright background of the nebula. Located 1,500 light-years
away, along our spiral arm of the Milky Way, the Orion nebula is
located in the middle of the sword region of the constellation Orion
the Hunter, which dominates the early winter evening sky at northern
latitudes.
Subject Category
Deep Space Studies, Hubble,
Reference Numbers
Center: HSTI
Center Number: PR95-45A
GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2000-000983
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NASA Center: Hubble Space Telescope Center
Image # : PR00-10
Date : 03/02/2000
The Reflection Nebula in Orion
Full Description
Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope
in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of
NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion.
The Heritage astronomers, in collaboration with scientists in Texas and
Ireland, used Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) to
obtain the color image. NGC 1999 is an example of a reflection nebula.
Like fog around a street lamp, a reflection nebula shines only because
the light from an imbedded source illuminates its dust; the nebula does
not emit any visible light of its own. NGC 1999 lies close to the
famous Orion Nebula, about 1,500 light-years from Earth, in a region
of our Milky Way galaxy where new stars are being formed actively.
NGC 1999 was discovered some two centuries ago by Sir William Herschel
and his sister Caroline, and was cataloged later in the 19th century as
object 1999 in the New General Catalogue.
This data was collected in January 2000 by the Hubble Heritage Team
with the collaboration of star-formation experts C. Robert O'Dell (Rice
University), Thomas P. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Study), and
David Corcoran (University of Limerick).
Hubble Space Telescope HST NGC 1999 Reflection Nebula Wide Field Planetary Camera WFPC
Subject Category
Deep Space Studies, Hubble,
Reference Numbers
Center: HSTI
Center Number: PR00-10
GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2000-000888
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Film Type: 4x5 Date Taken: 12/30/92
Title: HST image of the Orion's Great Nebula "window-curtain" structure
Description:
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image shows the thin sheets of gas at the edge of the Great Nebula in the constellation of Orion.
These thin sheets of gas discovered by HST's wide field/planetary camera (WFPC) have been compared to rippled "window-curtains" and mark the boundaries between the hot and diffuse inner regions of the Great Nebula and cooler and denser neighboring cloud. The sheets of gas are seen in light that has been emitted by atoms of gaseous sulfur (shown as red).
Also visible in the image is the emitted light from oxygen and hydrogen which appears in blue and green. The light emissions of the gases are stimulated by the intense ultraviolet radiation given off from nearby cluster of particularly hot and luminous young stars. The sulfur emissions are coming from a region where the light from the young stars is"boiling off" material from the face of the dense cloud.
Subject terms:
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
INTERSTELLAR GAS
ORION CONSTELLATION
ORION NEBULA
SATELLITE OBSERVATION
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NASA Photo ID: STS059-52-029
File Name: 20137412.jpg
Film Type: 35mm
Date Taken: 04/10/94
Title: Constellation Orion backdropped against Southern Lights
Description:
The constellation Orion is backdropped against a colorful display of the Southern Lights (aurora australis) in this 35mm image.
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In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the
crisp resolution of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures various
stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view.
To the upper left of center is the evolved blue supergiant called Sher
25. The star has a unique circumstellar ring of glowing gas that is a
galactic twin to the famous ring around the supernova 1987A. The
grayish-bluish color of the ring and the bipolar outflows (blobs to the
upper right and lower left of the star) indicates the presence of
processed (chemically enriched) material. Near the center of the view
is a so-called starburst cluster dominated by young, hot Wolf-Rayet
stars and early O-type stars. A torrent of ionizing radiation and fast
stellar winds from these massive stars has blown a large cavity around
the cluster.
The most spectacular evidence for the interaction of ionizing radiation
with cold molecular-hydrogen cloud material are the giant gaseous
pillars to the right of the cluster. These pillars are sculptured by
the same physical processes as the famous pillars Hubble photographed
in the M16 Eagle Nebula. Dark clouds at the upper right are so-called
Bok globules, which are probably in an earlier stage of star formation.
To the lower left of the cluster are two compact, tadpole-shaped
emission nebulae. Similar structures were found by Hubble in Orion, and
have been interpreted as gas and dust evaporation from possibly
protoplanetary disks (proplyds).
This true-color picture was taken on March 5, 1999 with the Wide Field
Planetary Camera 2.
NASA Center: Hubble Space Telescope Center
Image # : PR99-20
Date : 03/05/1999
Reference Numbers
Center: HSTI
Center Number: PR99-20
GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2000-000938
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Sorta makes you wanta go home.
Sorta makes ya wanta go home.
All God's children get weary when they roam.
Sorta makes you wanta go home.
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December 16, 1848, the Lord gave me a view of the shaking of the powers of the heavens. I saw that when the Lord said "heaven," in giving the signs recorded by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, He meant heaven, and when He said "earth," He meant earth. The powers of heaven are the sun, moon, and stars. They rule in the heavens. The powers of earth are those that rule on the earth. The powers of heaven will be shaken at the voice of God. Then the sun, moon, and stars will be moved out of their places. They will not pass away, but be shaken by the voice of God. {CET 111.1}
Dark heavy clouds came up, and clashed against each other. The atmosphere parted and rolled back; then we could look up through the open space in Orion, whence came the voice of God. The holy city will come down through that open space. I saw that the powers of earth are now being shaken, and that events come in order. War, and rumors of war, sword, famine, and pestilence are first to shake the powers of earth, then the voice of God will shake the sun, moon, and stars, and this earth also. I saw that the shaking of the powers in Europe is not, as some teach, the shaking of the powers of heaven, but it is the shaking of the angry nations. {CET 111.2}
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Dark, heavy clouds came up and clashed against each other. The atmosphere parted and rolled back. Then we could look up through the open space in Orion, whence came the voice of God.--EW 41 (1851). {LDE 272.1}
Soon we heard the voice of God [THE VOICE OF GOD IS HEARD REPEATEDLY DURING THE PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING CHRIST'S RETURN. SEE THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, PP. 632, 633, 636, 638, 640, 641.] like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus' coming. The living saints, 144,000 in number, knew and understood the voice, while the wicked thought it was thunder and an earthquake.--EW 15 (1851). {LDE 272.2}
As God spoke the day and the hour of Jesus' coming, and delivered the everlasting covenant to His people, He spoke one sentence, and then paused, while the words were rolling through the earth. The Israel of God stood with their eyes fixed upward, listening to the words as they came from the mouth of Jehovah and rolled through the earth like peals of loudest thunder. It was awfully solemn. At the end of every sentence the saints shouted, "Glory! Hallelujah!" Their countenances were lighted up with the glory of God, and they shone with glory as did the face of Moses when he came down from Sinai. The wicked could not look upon them for the glory. And when the never-ending blessing was pronounced on those who had honored God in keeping His Sabbath holy, there was a mighty shout of victory over the beast and over his image.--EW 285, 286 (1858). {LDE 272.3}
I have not the slightest knowledge as to the time spoken by the voice of God. I heard the hour proclaimed, but had no remembrance of that hour after I came out of vision. Scenes of such thrilling, solemn interest passed before me as no language is adequate to describe. It was all a living reality to me, for close upon this scene appeared the great white cloud, upon which was seated the Son of man.--1SM 76 (1888). {LDE 273.1}
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Edward F Sutton
[This message has been edited by Edward F Sutton (edited July 27, 2001).]