Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars WPA Posters Thurston the great magician the

Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe

the original owner

2009) --- Space Shuttle Atlantis and its six-member STS-129 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station

digitally mosaicked in an point perspective projection

I think this must be about 1915 or so

Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars WPA Posters Thurston the great magician theOrion Nebula (M42, NGC 1976) Emission NebulaConstellation: OrionDistance: The distance to the Orion Nebula is 1,500 light years (460 parsecs). Dimensions: The image is 30 arcminutes (13 light years or 4. 0 parsecs) square. This image is a composite mosaic of many separate expposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO La Silla 2. 2 meter telescope using several different filters isolating the light of specific elements