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| Keywords: 1e18m comparison 1000 light years nebula clusters.png en Comparison of lengths and sizes with size order of magnitude 1e18m thousand light year radius circle with yellow arrow and 100 light year circle at right with globular cluster Messier 5 within and Carina Nebula in front; globular cluster Omega Centauri to left of both; part of the 1400 light year wide Tarantula Nebula fills the background All distances and sizes approximately to scale No transparency version derived from Paul Stansifer's POV-Ray source files see below by me 84user using w en POV-Ray and w en IrfanView See licensing for sources of images 84user's contribution inside POV-Ray files adjusting coordinates changing light source and other parameters is public domain and source files used are described at User 84user/Size comparison Physical information is based on the Wikipedia articles and elsewhere see POVRay source files about the respective lengths Paul Stansifer's contributions to this image POV-Ray code are available under the GPL v 2 and other licenses See User Paul Stansifer/Size comparison for more details and the other licenses 2008-12-25 Paul Stansifer User 84user NASA/JPL-Caltech/B Brandl Cornell University of Leiden ESA HST see source above and Licensing below Because this image was rendered using Paul Stanfiser's POV GPL v2 source code together with separately licensed source images it is an aggregated derivative Therefore you must apply all applicable licenses For Paul's POV-Ray source derivative choose one or more of these GPLv2 only GFDL-en relicense CC-BY-SA-2 5 <center>Attribution Paul Stansifer</center> Carina Nebula from File Eta Carinae Nebula 1 jpg credit HST/NASA/ESA license PD-Hubble Tarantula Nebula from http //www spitzer caltech edu/Media/releases/ssc2004-01/ssc2004-01a shtml Primary http //photojournal jpl nasa gov/catalog/PIA05062 Secondary ; Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/B Brandl Cornell University of Leiden PD-USGov-NASA Omega Centauri mosaic image from E Kopan of Infrared Processing and Analysis Center IPAC University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology Atlas Image mosaic obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey 2MASS a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation PD-USGov See also thumb left Zoomed in to show objects with size order of magnitude 1e17m hundred light year radius circle with yellow Vernal Point arrow and 10 light year circle at right; globular cluster Messier 5 in background; 12 light year radius Orion Nebula middle right; 50 light year wide view of the Carina Nebula bottom left; Pleiades cluster and Bubble Nebula NGC 7635 with similar diameters each around 10 light years bottom right; grey arrows show distances from Sun to stars Aldebaran 65 light years and Bega 25 light years clr ImageNote 1 2 2 1276 700 1280 1024 2 LangSwitch Part of NGC 2070 Tarantula nebula ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 1120 640 122 92 1280 1024 2 Messier 5 ImageNoteEnd 2 ImageNote 3 1135 721 60 32 1280 1024 2 Eta Carinae Nebula ImageNoteEnd 3 ImageNote 4 830 527 209 203 1280 1024 2 NGC 5139 Omega Centauri ImageNoteEnd 4 ImageNote 5 9 715 1129 55 1280 1024 2 light year radius ImageNoteEnd 5 ImageNote 6 1015 683 151 81 1280 1024 2 LangSwitch Zoom into 100 light years and smaller 120px ImageNoteEnd 6 Hubble images of nebulae Astronomical object comparisons Created with Persistence of Vision Spitzer space telescope NASA images NGC 2070 Hubble images of star clusters Nebulae Images created or edited with IrfanView | ||||
