APOD 2.1

January 14th 2013

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

This picture is a celestial still life, depicting a large number of stars intensified by the dusty nebula. The stars themselves do not have that wide of a light radius, but because they are shining through the dusty nebula, the particles in the nebula shine, like a beam of light when you shine a flashlight through a dust cloud. This nebula is estimated to only be 2,400 light-years away!