A Red Rose In The Sky: The Rosette Nebula

When the Heaven shall be cleft asunder, and become rose red, like stained leather. (Surat ar-Rahman, 37) 



The Arabic translation of "become rose red, like stained leather" is "verdeten ke eddihani". 
This means an image appearing in the sky as a red rose and it has a similarity to a red celesital body, 
especially named "Rosetta Nebula". 

Nebula means cloud-like masses of gas in space. It appear after the expolsion of very large stars beacuse of 
internal high pressure and temperature. THis explosion release gases to space and they form 
a gas cloud with temperature more than 15.000 degree celcius. 

The Rosetta Nebula also a vast cloud of gas but it is called Rosetta due to its rose like resemblance. 
Its area is five times bigger than full moon and its true diameter is estimated at 
130 light years.

Its research was led by Lesia Townsley form Penn State University. They examined Rosetta Nebula 
with Chandra X-ray telescope. They imaged hundreds of stars in the Rosetta Nebula.

Townsley described Rosetta as below: 

"A ghostly glow of diffuse X ray emission pervades the Rosette Nebula and perhaps many other star-forming regions throughout the Galaxy. We now have a new view of the engine lighting the beautiful Rosette Nebula and new evidence for how the interstellar medium may be energized."


Such a great existence in the sky can only be observed by telescopes or high-tech equipments but this was noted in the Qur'an in great agreement with the findings of recent astronomy. In one verse it is revealed that:

You do not engage in any matter or recite any of the Qur'an or do any action without Our witnessing you while you are occupied with it. Not even the smallest speck eludes your Lord, either on earth or in heaven. Nor is there anything smaller than that, or larger, which is not in a Clear Book. (Surah Yunus, 61)



REF:
1 http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_%28astronomi%29
2 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010214.html
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosette_Nebula
4 http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/01_releases/press_090601wind.html; Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Penn State University Press, 6 September, 2001