Desktop Project Part 5: The mighty, mighty Dragonfish

[Over the past few weeks, I've collected a metric ton of cool pictures to post, but somehow have never gotten around to actually posting them. Sometimes I was too busy, sometimes too lazy, sometimes they just fell by the wayside... but I decided my computer's desktop was getting cluttered, and I'll never clean it up without some sort of incentive. I've therefore made a pact with myself to post one of the pictures with an abbreviated description every day until they're gone, thus cleaning up my desktop, showing you neat and/or beautiful pictures, and making me feel better about my work habits. Enjoy.] I'm fond of saying that the Orion Nebula is one of the biggest, most active star forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy. It has enough gas to form thousands of stars like the Sun, and it's one of the brightest and closest such gas clouds in ...