http://www.shopatsky.com/productimages%5Cp0141_m.jpg
is this a real picture or a painting??
2007-09-23 14:23:07 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes it is real and it is a NEBULA, not a galaxy. It is a vast cloud of gas and dust being drawn together by Gravity. (Coalescing.) It is a STAR forming region. That is where stars are born. The picture was no doubt taken with the Hubble space telescope. Are you planning to pick me as the winner since I was the first to accurately identify WHAT it actually is?
2007-09-23 14:38:35 · answer #1 · answered by Becky 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
There are plenty of sources for photographs of the heavens - from amateur photographers, amateur astronomers right up to Hubble photographs (which appears to be the most fantastic). Before Hubble we had only the largest telescopes taking photographs of deep space objects. I took some photographs of the night sky some 30? years ago. Using a SLR camera with tripod and cable release - in which you just pointed the camera straight up with standard lens (not a wide angle, and not using a telephoto lens) and exposed colour slide film for around 20 seconds to around 10? seconds - something like this, with the lens wide open. What you get is some fantastic starfield photographs showing the various constellations, etc. It is much much better than the naked eye, because the camera and film picks up dim objects more clearly than your naked eye can. You would not expose it longer than 30 seconds (during which there should be no camera movement or other movement, etc) so that you get a clear image. Much longer and you start getting star trails - if you expose the film for one shot, say for so many hours, you start getting the circular movement, that constellations seem to move around.. You can do the same with a digital camera --- getting the same results? I would expect. Just do searches on the Internet, and you should be able locate such photographs? Amateur astronomers using cameras on their telescopes, can produce some very nice photographs too. Again it's better than you would see through your own eyes, because the camera picks up more detail in low light, than you can..
2016-05-17 07:06:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It absolutely is real and it absolutely IS a Nebula. Becky was the first one to correctly identify it. (She should win.) How can Aviophage have a PhD in Astrophysics and NOT know that is a Nebula? It also IS a Hubble picture by the way. My vote goes to Becky.
2007-09-23 14:57:05 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is very real.
It is a Hubble image of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (M16) in the constellation Serpens.
Check out hubblesite.org for some other truly amazing images of objects in space - there is some really beautiful stuff out there that everyone should see.
2007-09-23 15:12:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
I am almost positive that is a real photo. It may have been enhanced. Check out the Spitzer space telescope or NASA website(s) for links to images and you will find that photo.
That exact image is a section of a larger area of space with similar, though less dramatic features.
Later, adventureboyseven
2007-09-23 14:31:01 · answer #5 · answered by adventureboyseven 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I would say it is real because I have seen many other pictures of other galaxies, and they do look like that. Also, the website it is from seems like the site that wouldn't sell paintings, but real pictures from space.
2007-09-23 14:28:34 · answer #6 · answered by Irrelevant Obsession 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
That is a color-enhanced photograph of a very familiar type.
I'm sorry, I don't have time to look it up to see exactly what it is, but there are very many dust cloud formations of that kind throughout the universe.
Try searching through the astronomical pictures at nasa.gov and you will see that one and many others like it.
2007-09-23 14:40:23 · answer #7 · answered by aviophage 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
since it's from the "Sky and Telescope" site, here,......
http://www.shopatsky.com/
I'd have to guess it's real.... and it's wonderful!!... Eagle Nebula, fer sure..(found it... here...
http://www.shopatsky.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=43&Page=3
.. check out some of the other offerings from that site!!... like Cat's Eye.... wow!!!...
2007-09-24 00:54:20 · answer #8 · answered by meanolmaw 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes its real. its a pillar of gas and dust that is constantly forming stars.
and if your interested in that you should google "the pillars of creation". theyre amazing.
2007-09-23 15:13:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
if its not real then thats a REALLY good painting
but i would say its real
2007-09-23 14:26:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋