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Does anyone have a simulated image of what it would look like in visible light without red shifting?

i.e. If we were moving at the same velocity of the Nebula looking with our own eyes.

i.e. What it would look like "in real life if I actually went there"



These objects are much too faint to see much of anything with human eyes. We can see them in astrophotography because the exposures are hours long (or weeks even, sometimes), and because telescopes gather more light than the eye per unit time, as well. This is why these nebulae look like billowing clouds - they are huge (light years across), so some light is absorbed as it crosses them, and some of the infrared light emitted by them adds up. And then we enhance the effect by taking very long exposures. If we actually went and stood near or even inside these nebulae, we would still be in pretty hard interstellar vacuum, and we wouldn't see anything.


Very nice description. Thanks for your time and effort.


Visible light looks like this: https://www.adamblockphotos.com/ngc-3372-carina-nebula.html

But that's with a telescope and long exposure & image stacking. But still in RGB as humans would see it.

I guess there would be a point that if you were not so far away, but still far enough away - it would light up the sky. This is emission nebula after all.

BUt if you were in it, it would be so diffuse that you wouldn't know it... perhaps a weird glow if you were near some of the forming stars.




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