Waves break on a stellar lagoon - pic

[Kadie]

A close-up shot of the Lagoon Nebula's center shows the delicate structures formed when powerful radiation from young stars interacts with the hydrogen cloud from which they sprang. The color-coded image was created from exposures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Light from glowing hydrogen is colored red, light from ionized nitrogen is green, and light through a yellow filter is colored blue.


Waves break on a stellar lagoon

Alan Boyle says: Today's stunner from the Hubble Space Telescope shows clouds of gas and dust in the Lagoon Nebula, being sculpted by the intense radiation from hot young stars nearby. The nebula is so named because of a wide lagoon-shaped lane of dust at the heart of the star-forming region, 4,000 to 5,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The scene may look as placid as an earthly cloud at sunset on the first day of autumn ... but the Lagoon is actually a boiling sea of starbirth. Check out the European Space Agency's Hubble website for the full story, and don't miss this zoom-in video that shows you how to get from here to there. For more views of the cosmos, visit our Space Gallery.

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/22/5157221-waves-break-on-a-stellar-lagoon



Wow...

[Dash87]

1. Amazing! Imagine being able to see that through a telescope

yourself. Must be an incredible experience! :)

♥

[notesdev]

6. Actually you can't do that

the colors are added in post processing to highlight texture composition, it doesn't really glow with those colors.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Imagine being NEAR that

Of course, it may be toxic to life with all the cosmic radiation, but the view would be spectacular.

[Lebam in LA]

2. Amazing beauty

Thanks for posting

[AuntPatsy]

3. The greatest artist in the world, mother nature in all her glory...beautiful...

[Sanity Claws]

4. What a great way of phrasing it

Mother Nature is a great artist.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. How glorious!

Science can be beautiful...

[atomic-fly]

7. Wow amazing...

I have seen it from my 8" telescope, but it looks more like this.

[applegrove]

8. Seems organic. Love it.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. Some asshole corporation is going to shoot a bullet into that.....

and make water out of it and bring it back here and make us all buy it.



Just sayin'.

On edit to say that I am truly ashamed of myself but hell....I kill my self sometimes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=9124668