Tour of our galaxy’s visible nebulae
By Stars & Astronomy On May 23rd, 2010FORMAT: Nebula : Taken from : Light years from Earth URL the page with picture and information Credit and/or Copyright (Only about half fit in this description area.) Eagle Nebula: Hubble Telescope : 7000 ly hubblesite.org Cat’s Eye Nebula: Hubble Telescope : 3000 ly www.nasa.gov Little Ghost Nebula: Hubble Telescope : 2000 ly antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit: Hubble Heritage Team, NASA Cygnus Nebula: ? : 2000 ly www.princeton.edu Lagoon Nebula : Hubble Telescope : 5000 ly antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit & Copyright: Michael Sherick Crab Nebula: Nordic Optical Telescope : 7000 ly antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit & Copyright: Walter Nowotny (U. Wien, Nordic Optical Telescope) Orion Nebula: Hubble Telescope : 1500 ly antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and The Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team Keyhole Nebula (center of photogragh): ? : 7000 ly antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit: K. Weis & WJ Duschl (ITA, U. Heidelberg) Ring Nebula: Hubble Telescope : 4000 ly antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit: H. Bond et al., Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA), NASA Eskimo Nebula: Hubble Telescope : 5000 ly antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit: Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA Horsehead Nebula: Antilhue Observatory : 1500 ly antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit & Copyright: Daniel Verschatse (Antilhue Observatory) Ant Nebula: Hubble Telescope : 3000 ly antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit: R. Sahai (JPL) et al., Hubble Heritage Team, ESA, NASA Hourglass Nebula: Hubble Telescope …
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By concealing the latter half of the video’s nature until the end, I attempted to foster an unfettered sense of awe in the viewer, and then try to get him or her to relate that feeling to the group in question—to help them understand. I didn’t intend for the video to be divisive.
@muchentuchen1000
And that same sense of awe is felt by people of all worldviews—regardless of the subject of attribution.
@thesparitan
Thank you, thesparitan; and I get where you’re coming from. But half the point of the video is that atheists are people too. It challenges the unusual attacks that atheists are cold examiners of nature that fail to appreciate its beauty. A pure appreciation of beauty is the other half of the point.
God is just awesome
The Secular Astronomer IS NOT trying change any persons “belief”. He is only trying to expand the mind and spirit using the utter incomprehensible size of the universe we see, not to mention what we can’t see and only measure. The size of the can around your skull is measured by your own confined thought of what you were taught and your refusal to be in Wonderment in what “God” has put on display for us to fathom his own mind and infinity.
@SecularAstronomer I wonder if they ever have found out what causes the comet knots in some nebula. They are the size of our solar system and the mass of the earth. Everything is becoming further then before, humans may never go to another galaxy. It is a poor imagination that needs a god in order to be awe of the universe.
If you make another video, would you use ave maria, and try to ignore the irony. LOL
It would be nicer if you didnt bring religion or lack there of in to it. I just got done with Berating a religious person from bringing god into a video about stars and their sizes. I would feel hypocritical if I approved of this. I understand the purpose of this video and agree with it of course because I am an atheist but I cant condone it.
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By the way, video was great. The use of beethoven was brilliant.
I wish Earth was like Pandora so we could see giant planets just by looking out our windows :/
omg its soo nice nice colors and picture thank for the video!
true, but they r fucking nice man..
ring nebula, wow.. that blue,, looks like heaven to me! omfg..
i really like moonlight sonata 1st to 3rd mvt.
the names of the nebulae are rediculous
I agree absolutely, i consider myself an Atheist, i am also an Amateur Astronomer.
Personally, i think i appreciate the universe even more because of that.
I love this video so much. Space is truly an inspiring place. It’d be a beautiful thing to see without the need of a telescope.
Ah watching this is so exciting ! It should have millions of views but instead people get consumed by much more useless forms of entertainment.
Wouldn’t it be awesome to look at them in person one day? I know I’d be so excited!
Oh ok i see your point
I wasn’t preaching; I was making a point. I indented this video to do more than just inspire awe of the universe—but to also to make the viewer conscious of that awe, and then inform the viewer that atheists “stand [just as] rapt in awe” (to quote Einstein) as anyone else. That part of the video was aimed at the certain religious people who claim that the adoption of the atheist worldview diminishes one’s appreciation and awe of the universe.
Regrettably, I doubt many understood my point.
ya i loved the quote and the vid but what does atheism have anything to do with nebulas…?
That was a great vid. 5 stars
Nebulae often form star-forming regions, such as in the Eagle Nebula. This nebula is depicted in one of NASA’s most famous images, the “Pillars of Creation”. In these regions the formations of gas, dust and other materials “clump” together to form larger masses, which attract further matter, and eventually will become big enough to form stars. The remaining materials are then believed to form planets, and other planetary system objects. That good info for you?
A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas, helium gas and plasma. Originally nebula was a general name for any extended astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way (some examples of the older usage survive; for example, the Andromeda Galaxy was referred to as the Andromeda Nebula before galaxies were discovered by Edwin Hubble).
Uhm…..the Tarantula Nebula is not in our galaxy, its in the Large Magellanic Cloud. So its not exactly a tour of our galaxy’s nebulas now, is it?
A great and informational video regardless!