by Northerner4 » Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:33 am
I will agree that energized gases are responsible for the glow behind the large pillar, but I still think that the energy causing the glow is from a bright star obscured by the column, not one 'off-screen'.
For a source to be 'off-screen' to the top right, then all the constituent objects in the image would tend to show the radiant shadow spikes, similar to the ones from the large column, and they do not.
For an object to be illuminated to the degree shown, light (energetic streams of particles, what ever) would have to be literally pouring on it like a stream of water, and there is vanishingly little evidence that an object 'off-screen' is providing such an outflow of energy.
I guess this is why we each are allowed to believe the scenario which fit our perceptions.
I will agree that energized gases are responsible for the glow behind the large pillar, but I still think that the energy causing the glow is from a bright star obscured by the column, not one 'off-screen'.
For a source to be 'off-screen' to the top right, then all the constituent objects in the image would tend to show the radiant shadow spikes, similar to the ones from the large column, and they do not.
For an object to be illuminated to the degree shown, light (energetic streams of particles, what ever) would have to be literally pouring on it like a stream of water, and there is vanishingly little evidence that an object 'off-screen' is providing such an outflow of energy.
I guess this is why we each are allowed to believe the scenario which fit our perceptions.