Good Thursday Afternoon my Brothers and Sisters!
I just added a beautiful adjunct video in my response to Maj William W. 'Bill' Price's APOD for today and as I was perusing some additional video material, I came across a beautiful video taking one on and through the Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared Light! The imaging was taken from both the Hubble Space Telescope (Visible light) and the Spitzer Space Telescope (Infrared light).
I share this with you now... I hope you all enjoy it... MAKE SURE YOU WATCH THIS FULL SCREEN WITH SOUND AT MID LEVEL AT LEAST... The larger the screen the more beautiful this is....
Kerry
Here is the description as written by the folks at the Hubble Space Telescope YouTube channel...
"This visualization explores the Orion Nebula using both visible and infrared light. The sequence begins with a wide-field view of the sky showing the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, then zooms down to the scale of the Orion Nebula. The visible light observation (from the Hubble Space Telescope) and the infrared light observation (from the Spitzer Space Telescope) are compared first in two-dimensional images, and then in three-dimensional models.
As the camera flies into the star-forming region, the sequence cross-fades back and forth between the visible and infrared views. The glowing gaseous landscape has been illuminated and carved by the high energy radiation and strong stellar winds from the massive hot stars in the central cluster. The infrared observations generally show cooler temperature gas at a deeper layer of the nebula that extends well beyond the visible image. In addition, the infrared showcases many faint stars that shine primarily at longer wavelengths. The higher resolution visible observations show finer details including the wispy bow shocks and tadpole-shaped proplyds. In this manner, the movie illustrates the contrasting features uncovered by multi-wavelength astronomy." - Hubble Space Telescope
Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, J. DePasquale, L. Hustak, L. Frattare, M. Robberto (STScI), R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC), M. Kornmesser (ESA), A. Fujii
Acknowledgement: R. Gendler
Music: “Dvorak – Serenade for Strings Op22 in E Major larghetto”, performed by The Advent Chamber Orchestra, CC BY-SA
I hope you all enjoy it...
Kerry
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