Reach
My daughter before one of her ice skating competitions. I slipped in a recent Astronomy Picture Of the Day photo of the Cone Nebula and the Snowflake Cluster for effect.
From the APOD website:
Strange shapes and textures can be found in the neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. These patterns result from the tumultuous unrest that accompanies the formation of the open cluster of stars known as NGC 2264, the Snowflake cluster. To better understand this process, a detailed image of this region was taken in two colors of infrared light by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope. Bright stars from the Snowflake cluster dot the field. These stars soon heat up and destroy the gas and dust mountains in which they formed. One such dust mountain is the famous Cone Nebula, visible in the above image on the left, pointing toward a bright star near the center of the field. The entire NGC 2264 region is located about 2,500 light years away toward the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros).
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Tom Godfrey
Are these astronomy “pics of the day”,available for general download or do you have to pay for them? They are perfect for Sci Fi backgrounds and you use them amazingly well littleredplanet
littleredplanet
Tom, Many Thanks for the comments.
They are from the APOD website. I give them credit for the background image and provide a link back to the original. My view is as many people as possible should be exposed to the beauty and knowledge of the space beyond Earth. I try and use my images against a real space image backdrop to assist in this endeavor.
cheers
Tom Godfrey
Thanks lrp (lazy me) I agree re exposing people to the boundless beauty and mystery of our universe. I guess that’s what draws me to Sci Fi – Anything we can imagine may well be real somewhere, sometime….not that i’d want to meet all the creatures that pop into my head when I’m drawing :)