My wallpaper for the week comes courtesy of the Hubble Space
Telescope. The image is described as the sharpest ever taken
of the Orion Nebula. According to the Hubble site description:
The Orion Nebula is 1,500 light-years away, the nearest star-forming region to Earth. Astronomers used 520 Hubble images, taken in five colors, to make this picture. They also added ground-based photos to fill out the nebula. The ACS mosaic covers approximately the apparent angular size of the full moon.
It is unfortunate, for a telescope that is capable of such magnificent images, that its future is clouded by the small minded political priorities of those now in power in Washington. A pox on those who would drain funding for these kinds of efforts while approving millions for "bridges to nowhere." A pox on those who sustain and encourage a culture of corruption. A pox on those who can't see past their next illegal campaign contribution to gaze upward to the dazzling beauty of the heavens.
Aloha!
