Posted on Apr 17, 2021
APOD: 2021 April 17 - Inside the Flame Nebula
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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Inside the Flame Nebula." We began this week five days ago with the Flame Nebula in visible light (look for APOD: 2021 April 12); we return to take a second look at the same target (NGC 2024), but in infrared courtesy of the Spitzer Space Telescope. Thar be stars in thar! Observations refined further by the Chandra X-Ray telescope show hundreds of young stars (200,000 to 1.5 million years old) near the center of the Flame Nebula (out of an estimated population of 800). Current models suggest that stars only form in the denser areas of molecular clouds. In the case of the Flame Nebula, those models no longer hold.
APOD: 2021 April 17 - Inside the Flame Nebula
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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Inside the Flame Nebula."
It is always nice to hypotheses bouncing up against measured or extrapolated data as in this case. Brilliant people try to develop comprehensive 'rules' for creation including star formation.
God alone knows the depth and breadth of creation :-)
Image: Inside the Flame Nebula - Image Credit - NASA, JPL-Caltech, IPAC Infrared Science Archive - Processing - Amal Biju
APOD Background
"Explanation: The Flame Nebula is a stand out in optical images of the dusty, crowded star forming regions toward Orion's belt and the easternmost belt star Alnitak, a mere 1,400 light-years away. Alnitak is the bright star at the right edge of this infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. About 15 light-years across, the infrared view takes you inside the nebula's glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds though. It reveals many stars of the recently formed, embedded cluster NGC 2024 concentrated near the center. The stars of NGC 2024 range in age from 200,000 years to 1.5 million years young. In fact, data indicate that the youngest stars are concentrated near the middle of the Flame Nebula cluster. That's the opposite of the simplest models of star formation for a stellar nursery that predict star formation begins in the denser center of a molecular cloud core. The result requires a more complex model for star formation inside the Flame Nebula."
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoOFn3wQV4
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen LTC (Join to see)MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Sgt Albert Castro PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Samuel Kermon SSG Franklin Briant SP5 Geoffrey Vannerson SMSgt David A Asbury A1C Riley SandersSPC Michael Oles SR TSgt David L. Maj Marty Hogan SMSgt Tom Burns SGT Herbert Bollum SGT Denny Espinosa
It is always nice to hypotheses bouncing up against measured or extrapolated data as in this case. Brilliant people try to develop comprehensive 'rules' for creation including star formation.
God alone knows the depth and breadth of creation :-)
Image: Inside the Flame Nebula - Image Credit - NASA, JPL-Caltech, IPAC Infrared Science Archive - Processing - Amal Biju
APOD Background
"Explanation: The Flame Nebula is a stand out in optical images of the dusty, crowded star forming regions toward Orion's belt and the easternmost belt star Alnitak, a mere 1,400 light-years away. Alnitak is the bright star at the right edge of this infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. About 15 light-years across, the infrared view takes you inside the nebula's glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds though. It reveals many stars of the recently formed, embedded cluster NGC 2024 concentrated near the center. The stars of NGC 2024 range in age from 200,000 years to 1.5 million years young. In fact, data indicate that the youngest stars are concentrated near the middle of the Flame Nebula cluster. That's the opposite of the simplest models of star formation for a stellar nursery that predict star formation begins in the denser center of a molecular cloud core. The result requires a more complex model for star formation inside the Flame Nebula."
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoOFn3wQV4
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen LTC (Join to see)MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Sgt Albert Castro PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Samuel Kermon SSG Franklin Briant SP5 Geoffrey Vannerson SMSgt David A Asbury A1C Riley SandersSPC Michael Oles SR TSgt David L. Maj Marty Hogan SMSgt Tom Burns SGT Herbert Bollum SGT Denny Espinosa
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Old Flame · Thin Lizzy
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FYI CSM Bruce TregoSPC Woody Bullard CPL Douglas ChryslerCpl (Join to see) SFC William Farrell SPC Michael TerrellSSG Paul Headlee SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D SSG Michael Noll SPC Randy Zimmerman Sgt Albert Castro Sgt Vance Bonds Cpl Vic Burk PO1 H Gene Lawrence Maj William W. 'Bill' Price SSgt Clare May SPC Diana D. Capt Christian D. Orr SP5 Gary Nelson SSG Bill McCoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sk-iEa1n7Y
FYI CSM Bruce TregoSPC Woody Bullard CPL Douglas ChryslerCpl (Join to see) SFC William Farrell SPC Michael TerrellSSG Paul Headlee SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D SSG Michael Noll SPC Randy Zimmerman Sgt Albert Castro Sgt Vance Bonds Cpl Vic Burk PO1 H Gene Lawrence Maj William W. 'Bill' Price SSgt Clare May SPC Diana D. Capt Christian D. Orr SP5 Gary Nelson SSG Bill McCoy
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Really cool astronomy picture share Maj William W. 'Bill' Price , looks like a fancy candy bowl sir, have a great Saturday sir.
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Good "Saturday" Morning my good friend and Astronomy Enthusiast Maj William W. 'Bill' Price - thanks for sharing the APOD Tilted: "Inside the Flame Nebula." Have a great weekend Bill.
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