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The structure for Europe’s second service module for +NASA's #Orion spacecraft arrived at the +Airbus clean room in Bremen, Germany, last week.
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Industry leading #LEDs for #refrigeration displays with quick delivery times. #Orion. Take a look for yourself. Download a datasheet here. http://ow.ly/jwfD50haPZq
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From my #startrek #cosplay days. Makeup used: Mehron. #orion
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Okay launch team, now let’s do simulations! A recent countdown demonstration of our systems that will help us travel deeper into space, including our Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, took us one step closer to launching humans to the Moon and Mars. Get the details: https://go.nasa.gov/2r4iGCW
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At the Heart of Orion
Near the center of this sharp cosmic portrait, at the heart of the Orion Nebula, are four hot, massive stars known as the Trapezium. Tightly gathered within a region about 1.5 light-years in radius, they dominate the core of the dense Orion Nebula Star Cluster. Ultraviolet ionizing radiation from the Trapezium stars, mostly from the brightest star Theta-1 Orionis C powers the complex star forming region's entire visible glow.

About three million years old, the Orion Nebula Cluster was even more compact in its younger years and a dynamical study indicates that runaway stellar collisions at an earlier age may have formed a black hole with more than 100 times the mass of the Sun. The presence of a black hole within the cluster could explain the observed high velocities of the Trapezium stars. The Orion Nebula's distance of some 1,500 light-years would make it the closest known black hole to planet Earth.

Image & info via APOD
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Image Credit & Copyright: Christoph Kaltseis, CEDIC 2017

#space #NASA #universe #Science #Orion #Nebula
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Orion A Molecular Cloud Complex

In this mosaic made from images taken by the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile in the near-infrared part of the spectrum you can see the Orion A molecular cloud, one of the two giant molecular clouds in the Orion molecular cloud complex (https://goo.gl/G0605a). It is located in the constellation of Orion (https://goo.gl/7fVJW0), about 1,350 light-years away from Earth.

Due to the images being taken in the near-infrared (https://goo.gl/6qVqkI) part of the spectrum you can see many young stars which would otherwise be hidden in the dense dust of the molecular cloud.

In the top part of the image you can see the famous Orion Nebula (M42, https://goo.gl/6uDnRD). The nebula is the closest large region of star formation (https://goo.gl/Mn2Zxf). It is of special interest because of its carbon chemistry, like other molecular clouds (https://goo.gl/dPyjMP) it contains an abundance of carbon-hydrogen positive ions (CH+).

Also visible in the image are pre-stellar discs, Herbig-Haro objects, star clusters and galaxy clusters lying far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy.

Make sure to click the link to the original article to see (and download) the image in its original size.

More information here:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1701/

What is a molecular cloud?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_cloud

Take a look here for an image of Herbig-Haro Object 24 in the OMC:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PierreMarkuse/posts/3yP7mFpTztM

Take a look here for an infrared image of the Orion Nebula taken by ESA's Hershel Space Observatory:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PierreMarkuse/posts/4hN5CLZp9fC

Image credit: Orion A Molecular Cloud Complex ESO/VISION survey https://goo.gl/DJM5p7 CC BY 4.0 https://goo.gl/hNRHCd

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#science #astronomy #orion #orionmolecularcloudcomplex #omc #molecularcloud #eso #vista #vision #infrared #dust #messier42 #m42 #orionnebula
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#NASA next objectives are clear! #Orion spacecraft orbiting the moon is the next step towards deep #space exploration.
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แสงพลังที่เกิดจากความร่วมมือ จากอนาคตและปัจจุบัน ทำให้เราจะมีสักญาภาพที่เหนืออนาคต
"Orion Returned"

Everyone's favourite this time of year, despite trying to resist the temptation I have to return to Orion.

With grand ideas of a large multi-panel, HDR with Ha and RGB filters, my ambition was reduced somewhat by the reality of some bad frames, the annoying realisation that air traffic control was routing all planes from "up north" right over where I was imaging, and the RGB exposures differing extensively between panels. In the end this is cropped by 50%, and consists of only my 5 minutes RGB filter and 10 minute Ha filter exposures in one panel. Details are below.

Hopefully, with some further post-processing I'll be able to re-introduce all the other data captured for Orion on this night...still, its pretty to look at.

Enjoy, Will.

| 2018-01-12 | Chittering, Western Australia | EOS6D modified | 85mm | f/4.0 | UV/IR cut-filter for RGB and Baadar Ha| ISO800 | 3 x 300sec for RGB and 3 x 600sec for Ha | 2 x panels | NEQ6 mount | Synguider |

#Orion #nebula #horsehead #astrophotography #stellaraustralis #vrbasso #canon #stars #constellation
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