Topic: Hubble Sees Dazzling Dust in the Iris Nebula

[sam]

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/01/hubble-sees-dazzling-dust-in-the-iris-nebula/

Another gorgeous image from Hubble! This close-up of NGC 7023, or the Iris Nebula, shows an area filled with cosmic dust. Illuminated from above by the nearby star HD 200775, the dust resembles pink cotton candy, accentuated with diamond-like stars. The "cotton candy" is actually made up of tiny particles of solid matter, with sizes from ten to a hundred times smaller than those of the dust grains we find on Earth, and the "diamonds" are both background and foreground stars.

[davy51]

Wow that would make a good walpaper

[sam]

Wow that would make a good walpaper

a large version can be found at http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/html/heic0915a.html

[Clive]

It looks quite spooky! 

[Simon]

I'm looking for a new wallpaper! 

[Rik]

It'll be very expensive printing that off on an inkjet, Simon. 

[Simon]

[Rik]

 

[sam]

It'll be very expensive printing that off on an inkjet, Simon. 

he's only got a dot matrix.

[Rik]

My first colour dot matrix seemed like a miracle at the time.

[sam]

its hard to distinguish modern technology from magic!

[Rik]

It is. An A4 photo prints in about 20 seconds, rather than the best part of an hour with early printers.