Hubble images give a tour of Orion's Belt

originally posted by: Kwakiutl
Who has the technology and how much will it cost? Is there other servicing issues that will need to be done while at it?

$10-$50 Million as a guess?

Good question Kwakiutl. Nasa and Elon need to be asked about this.

a reply to: Ophiuchus 13

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originally posted by: darepairman
a reply to: A51Watcher


Thank you, just amazing

Thanks for the comment darepairman. Very glad you enjoyed it!

a reply to: A51Watcher


Lots of ground based telescopes will resolve better than the Hubble

Currently under construction in the high Atacama Desert of Chile, the Giant Magellan Telescope is expected to be completed by 2025, though operations could begin sooner with only four of the seven mirrors. Like Hubble, it will take observations in visible light. In space, the GMT would have about 10 times the resolving power of Hubble

originally posted by: wmd_2008
a reply to: A51Watcher


Lots of ground based telescopes will resolve better than the Hubble

Currently under construction in the high Atacama Desert of Chile, the Giant Magellan Telescope is expected to be completed by 2025, though operations could begin sooner with only four of the seven mirrors. Like Hubble, it will take observations in visible light. In space, the GMT would have about 10 times the resolving power of Hubble

That is great news wmd_2008.

I look forward to them coming online.

I love these 3D simulations, but I do wonder why the Orion Nebula (and some other nebulae) are represented here as cavities that have nothing on the side that's facing us and lots of stuff on the opposite side. Surely, nebulae are more like bubbbles, extending out in all directions. There would be tenuous glowing gas all around the stars inside it.

a reply to: wildespace

Fair enough question wildespace. I'm not exactly sure what data set(s) the Cartographers used to create the wireframe to lay the images down on.

Maybe you could have go and see what it looks like.