Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Sat Mar 16 2019 07:29:30 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 March 16 [2] NGC 3324 in Carina Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Martin Pugh [4] Explanation: This bright cosmic cloud [5] was sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from the hot young stars of open cluster NGC 3324. With dust clouds in silhouette against its glowing atomic gas, the pocket-shaped [6] star-forming region actually spans about 35 light-years. It lies some 7,500 light-years away toward the nebula rich southern constellation Carina [7] . A composite of narrowband image data, the telescopic view captures the characteristic emission from ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms mapped to red, green, and blue hues [8] in the popular Hubble Palette. For some, the celestial landscape of bright ridges of emission bordered by cool, obscuring dust along [9] the right side create a recognizable face in profile. The region's popular name is the Gabriela Mistral Nebula [10] for the Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet. Tomorrow's picture: stranger things ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [11] | Archive [12] | Submissions [13] | Index [14] | Search [15] | Calendar [16] | RSS [17] | Education [18] | About APOD [19] | Discuss [20] | > [21] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [22] (MTU [23] ) & Jerry Bonnell [24] (UMCP [25] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [26] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [27] A service of: ASD [28] at NASA [29] / GSFC [30] & Michigan Tech. U. [31] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1903/NGC3324_SHO.jpg [3] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [4] https://www.martinpughastrophotography.space/ [5] https://www.martinpughastrophotography.space/ngc3324 [6] https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1207/ [7] ap180105.html [8] http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/ answer.php.id=93 [9] http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2008-34 [10] http://www.verschatse.cl/nebulae/ngc3324/medium.htm [11] ap190315.html [12] archivepix.html [13] lib/apsubmit2015.html [14] lib/aptree.html [15] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [16] calendar/allyears.html [17] /apod.rss [18] lib/edlinks.html [19] lib/about_apod.html [20] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190316 [21] ap190317.html [22] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [23] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [24] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [25] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [26] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [27] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [28] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [29] https://www.nasa.gov/ [30] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [31] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .