And they're off: Hubble, Herschel race for hot pics of space filly Orbiting space telescopes Herschel and Hubble have both snapped new infrared images of interstellar spectacle the Horsehead Nebula. Orion B molecular cloud The Herschel far-infrared snap of the Orion B cloud - look closely for the Horsehead The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory captured the famous dark …
To see the Horse-head nebula you need very dark sites, a big scope, and for preference an H-beta filter. Even with my 8" in the Alps I failed to spot it (did not have the filter though, next winter might be better).
We are lucky to live in a time when we have instruments like Hubble and Herschel to capture such beauty.
how boring.
It's just a waste void. Each direction resembling the last but for subtle differences in configuration and color. Unreachable objects of pointless character. There we have 5 planets orbiting a star, there we have 3 planets orbitting two. One of them is red.
Life is the only worthwhile complexity and yet despite all this space we can see none.
We could have lived in a more interesting universe. A universe where, instead of staring into perpectual void, we were met with tangles of alien plants and animals stretching lightyears in all directions from our world. Infinite ecosystems to explore.
But instead we are hunched around a secluded star with vast pointless space inbetween.
I can only presume this has been done deliberately to annoy me.
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