Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Wed Jan 02 2019 08:43:43 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 January 2 [2] The Orion Nebula in Infrared from WISE Image Credit: WISE [3] , IRSA [4] , NASA [5] ; Processing & Copyright : Francesco Antonucci [6] Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion is an intriguing place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch [7] in the constellation of Orion [8] . But this image [9] , an illusory-color four-panel mosaic taken in different bands of infrared light [10] with the Earth orbiting WISE observatory [11] , shows the Orion Nebula [12] to be a bustling neighborhood [13] of recently formed stars, hot gas, and dark dust. The power behind much of the Orion Nebula [14] (M42) is the stars of the Trapezium [15] star cluster, seen near the center of the featured image [16] . The orange glow surrounding the bright stars pictured here is their own starlight reflected [17] by intricate dust filaments [18] that cover much of the region [19] . The current Orion Nebula cloud complex [20] , which includes [21] the Horsehead Nebula [22] , will slowly disperse over the next 100,000 years. Free Download: 2019 APOD Calendar (v5) [23] Tomorrow's picture: open space ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [24] | Archive [25] | Submissions [26] | Index [27] | Search [28] | Calendar [29] | RSS [30] | Education [31] | About APOD [32] | Discuss [33] | > [34] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [35] (MTU [36] ) & Jerry Bonnell [37] (UMCP [38] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [39] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [40] A service of: ASD [41] at NASA [42] / GSFC [43] & Michigan Tech. U. [44] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1901/orionred_WISEantonucci_1824.jpg [3] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/main/ [4] https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/wise.html [5] https://www.nasa.gov/ [6] mailto: francesco .dot. antonucci @at@ fastwebnet .dot. it [7] ap030207.html [8] http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/ constellations/Orion.html [9] http://www.astrobin.com/141393/0/ [10] http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ir_tutorial/ [11] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/mission/index.html [12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula [13] http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-046 [14] ap120715.html [15] ap050710.html [16] http://www.astrobin.com/141393/0/ [17] ap120215.html [18] ap120612.html [19] ap980612.html [20] ap101023.html [21] ap141111.html [22] ap140728.html [23] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1812/ApodCalendar2019v5_Dave.pdf [24] ap190101.html [25] archivepix.html [26] lib/apsubmit2015.html [27] lib/aptree.html [28] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [29] calendar/allyears.html [30] /apod.rss [31] lib/edlinks.html [32] lib/about_apod.html [33] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190102 [34] ap190103.html [35] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [36] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [37] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [38] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [39] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [40] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [41] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [42] https://www.nasa.gov/ [43] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [44] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .