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Day of the Trifids.....dunt, dunt, duuuuuuun......

Very interesting view into this nebula. Always something behind the scenes...and not always Sinister....

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[quote="Case"]Meanwhile, there's a [url=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/uploaded_files/images/0008/8066/ssc2005-02a2_Sm.jpg]960x1563 px image[/url] in portrait orientation at the [s]Spitser[/s] [b]Spitzer[/b] site at [s]CalTech[/s] [b]Caltech[/b], that looks to be the same image.[/quote]
Fixed that for you. <g>

[quote="George"]And where largest image[/quote]
[quote="George"]The fact that the picture AOPD many years every day on my desktop, but it's empty ...[/quote]
Meanwhile, there's a [url=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/uploaded_files/images/0008/8066/ssc2005-02a2_Sm.jpg]960x1563 px image[/url] in portrait orientation at the Spitser site at CalTech, that looks to be the same image.

[quote="Ann"]But did they tell us how many they had counted?[/quote]
[url=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/184-ssc2005-02-Spitzer-Finds-Stellar-Incubators-with-Massive-Star-Embryos]Spitzer Finds Stellar 'Incubators' with Massive Star Embryos[/url]
[i]Spitzer discovered 30 embryonic stars in the Trifid Nebula's four cores and dark clouds. Multiple embryos were found inside two massive cores, while a sole embryo was seen in each of the other two. This is one of the first times that clusters of embryos have been observed in single cores at this early stage of stellar development.

Spitzer also uncovered about 120 small baby stars buried inside the outer clouds of the nebula. These newborns were probably formed around the same time as the main massive star and are its smaller siblings.[/i]

[img]http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/uploaded_files/graphics/high_definition_graphics/0008/8022/ssc2005-02b_Ti.jpg?1332541269[/img]

[quote="George"]The fact that the picture APOD many years every day on my desktop, but it's empty ...[/quote]

The fact that the picture AOPD many years every day on my desktop, but it's empty ...

[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="APOD Robot"]The spectacular false-color view...[/quote]
Since it's bound to come up:

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Thanks, Chris! :D

I found this a little irritating:

[quote]APOD Robot wrote:
Astronomers have used the Spitzer infrared image data to count newborn and embryonic stars which otherwise can lie hidden in the natal dust and gas clouds of this intriguing stellar nursery.[/quote]

But did they tell us how many they had counted?

Ann

[quote="George"]And where largest image[/quote]
In the forbidden temple, apparently. (Bystander saw this earlier and emailed the editors about it, so they know.)

And where largest image

[quote="APOD Robot"]The spectacular false-color view...[/quote]
Since it's bound to come up:

[attachment=0]colormap.PNG[/attachment]

[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150725.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_150725.jpg[/img] [size=150]Infrared Trifid[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] The Trifid Nebula, [url=http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m020.html]also known as Messier 20[/url], is easy to find with a small telescope, a well known stop in the [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130830.html]nebula rich[/url] constellation [url=http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/sgr/index.html]Sagittarius[/url]. But where [url=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/video-audio/733-ssc2005-02v1-Trifid-s-Shifting-Sides]visible light[/url] pictures show the nebula divided into three parts by dark, obscuring dust lanes, [url=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/1364-ssc2005-02a-New-Views-of-a-Familiar-Beauty]this penetrating infrared image[/url] reveals filaments of glowing dust clouds and newborn stars. The spectacular false-color view is courtesy of the [url=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzer/index.shtml]Spitzer Space Telescope[/url]. Astronomers have used the Spitzer [url=http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/]infrared image[/url] data to count newborn and [url=http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07226]embryonic[/url] stars which otherwise can lie hidden in the natal dust and gas clouds of this intriguing [url=http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Bima/StarForm.html]stellar nursery[/url]. As seen here, the Trifid is about 30 light-years across and lies only 5,500 light-years away.

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