Aww, how cute! What an adorable little… nebula?
Although here it may look like it could fit in your hand, the Horsehead Nebula is obviously quite a bit larger – about 1.5 light-years across from “nose” to “mane.” But given a tilt-shift effect by Imgur.com user ScienceLlama, the entire structure takes on the appearance of something tiny — based purely on our eyes’ natural depth-of-field when peering at a small object close up. Usually done with Photoshop filters these days, it’s a gimmick, yes… but it works!
The original image was captured in infrared light by the Hubble Space Telescope and released in April 2013, in celebration of its 23rd anniversary.
Check out more of ScienceLlama’s “tiny universe” images below:
See these and more on ScienceLlama’s Imgur page here, and follow Science Llama on Twitter here.
(H/T to Google+ user Brian Koberlein and fellow Space Community member Warren Isaac. Featured on Reddit.com.)
ADDITION 12/17: Several of these images (like this one) were originally processed by Robert Gendler from Hubble-acquired data, but the attribution was not noted by ScienceLlama. I apologize for the oversight — see more of Robert’s beautiful astrophotography on his website here. Another original source was Adam Block of the Mount Lemmon Sky Center.
Thanks for the share 😀
I posted some higher resolution images in the reddit comments. Some other users made some images based off this idea as well (the effect is actually really simple to make in photoshop).
It’s a great idea! I may try some myself. 🙂
Gave a star cluster a shot. Check it out: http://lightsinthedark.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/ngc-3603.jpg
Gave this star cluster a shot. Check it out: http://lightsinthedark.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/ngc-3603.jpg
Very interesting… I really like that first image!
Thanks for sharing… It would be better to put both images side by side..at least first one…
These images have been altered and published here without the permission or knowledge or appropriate credit to the authors. Several of these images are mine and this consdtitutes a copyright violation. The copyright statement on the APOD site needs to be respected. I request that these images be removed ASAP
According to “Fair use under United States law” no copyright infringement has been made here.
You are mistaken. Read the wording again. There is no mention of intentionally altering someone else’s work as ” fair use”.
Actually, the term “transformative” is mentioned, and that means alteration, which is a possible justification of fair use.
Anyway, I sent a note yesterday to Nancy Atkinson, the senior editor of Universe Today, about your grievance, and she has now credited your original work in the top picture.