The Great Turkey Nebula
Imagination Credit &
Copyright:
Eric Coles
Surprisingly reminiscent of The Great Nebula in Orion,
The Great Turkey Nebula spans this creative field of view.
Of course
if it were the Orion Nebula it would be our closest
large stellar nursery, found at the edge of a large molecular cloud
a mere 1,500 light-years away.
Also known as M42,
the Orion Nebula is visible to the eye as the middle
"star" in the sword of Orion the Hunter, a constellation
now rising in planet Earth's
evening skies.
Stellar winds from clusters of newborn stars scattered throughout
the Orion Nebula sculpt its ridges and cavities seen in
familiar in telescopic images.
Much larger than any bird you might be cooking,
this Great Turkey Nebula was imagined to be
similar in size to the Orion Nebula,
about 13 light-years across.
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