sideblog for @galaxiesovertrees

2006 August 18

Spitzer's Orion

Credit: Thomas Megeath (Univ. Toledo) et al., JPL, Caltech, NASA

Explanation: Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula, an immense stellar nursery some 1,500 light-years away. Also known as M42, the nebula is visible to the unaided eye, but this stunning infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope penetrates the turbulent cosmic gas and dust clouds to explore the region in unprecedented detail. At full resolution, the remarkable image data yields a census of new stars and potential solar systems. About 2,300 young stars surrounded by planet-forming disks were detected based on the infrared glow of their warm dust, along with about 200 stellar embryos, stars too young to have developed disks. This 0.8 by 1.4 degree false-color image is about 20 light-years wide at the distance of the Orion Nebula.

Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA)

NASA Official: Jay Norris.

A service of: EUD at NASA / GSFC

This fuckass concept of JWST (then NGST) fries me every time, like when I first watched it all I could think was "what the hell is going on" because the video kept flabbergasting me. Why the fuck is the "neck" so long and bent like that. Why the fuck is the sunshield deployed like that. Why the fuck is the mirror like that. Why the fuck is the secondary mirror like tha- Bro even has his propellant tanks out... Holy shit put them away???

Video snatched from the good ol reliable Wayback Machine. Bonus random ass file I got from the old NGST website too:

Infrared Trifid

yea i got a few more ancient 17776 doodles left in me before the Deltarune virus takes over my whole life

+the great struggle of attempting to draw the hubble space felescope