Friday, July 9, 2010

ORION NEBULA - HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE(NASA)



ORION NEBULA also known as(Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) .
Simply talking its a huge gas cloud (mostly hydrogen) and is lit up by the young forming stars within the nebula.
It is estimated to be at the distance of "24 LIGHT YEAR" from earth
1 light yr = 9,460,730,472,580.8 km.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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