Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The Orion nebula

1,450 light-years from Earth, captured by Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope (BBC News). Click on the photo to see the full sized photo.

2 comments:

flygirl said...

it always gets me that you can actually see it with the naked eye. though it is only a tiny smudge, it says volumes that it is sitll visible at such a distance!

Balaji said...

Yes...Wonders of nature and what we have seen is just a miniscule part...Isn't that amazing. Whether life existed there...What used to exist there...Could we have learnt from it? What caused the explosion..how long it was there...no one knows...it will be some time before we will come to know of it...isn't that amazing.....