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APOD: 2021 July 7 - Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Infrared Light

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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a 2:17 video clip titled "Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Infrared." The Orion Nebula (M42) is located roughly 1,500 light years from Earth. The Spitzer Space Telescope provided the data set for this visualization.

The tri-color nature of the imagery is due to the three basic infrared wavelengths that have been detected by Spitzer (short-, mid-, and long-wavelength). The valley leading up to the Trapezium star cluster (the bright stars passed over at 0:50) is over one light year wide. Data suggests a black hole lurks in the Orion Nebula. If so, it would be the closer to Earth than others that have been discovered.

APOD: 2021 July 7 - Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Infrared Light

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Orion Nebula

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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Video Clip of the Day (AVCOD) is a 2:17 video clip entitled "Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Infrared.

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1. 2021-07-07 Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Infrared Light (Dome Version)
2. 2021-07-07 Flight through the Orion Nebula in Infrared Light [pink open dome version]
3. 2021-07-07 Orion Nebula image - 1881 top, and 2011 bottom

Explanation: What would it look like to fly into the Orion Nebula? The exciting dynamic visualization of the Orion Nebula is based on real astronomical data and adept movie rendering techniques. Up close and personal with a famous stellar nursery normally seen from 1,500 light-years away, the digitally modeled representation based is based on infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The perspective moves along a valley over a light-year wide, in the wall of the region's giant molecular cloud. Orion's valley ends in a cavity carved by the energetic winds and radiation of the massive central stars of the Trapezium star cluster. The entire Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.

Orion Nebula · Synaesthesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWYJmROCjaU

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Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared Light - "Angel Song" by Alvin Zamudio

This visualization explores the Orion Nebula using both visible-light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared-light observations from the S...

Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared Light - "Angel Song" by Alvin Zamudio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO6C8TerXL0
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Metallica - Orion (Music Video "Original Creation" - 1986) [Full HD/3D]

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