Z, I cannot tell a lie.... Most of theee images are very heavily processed: Filtered so that various elements such as sulfur, oxygen, helium, etc show up as seperate colors. The Cat's Eye image is a composite of a visual image combined with an x-ray image. It's usually unlikely that with the naked eye we would see anything beside the bluish light image you can see when looking at anything in the sky. Makes me lose interest in getting a telescope.
I believe some of the nebulas do appear pinkish to the naked eye though.
Thanks for the kind word, Kid, though I probably d]n't deserve it. These pictures are as beautiful, mysterious, and awe-inspiring as ever. thans too for the explanatiin to Z about how they are "processed" in order to bring out characteristics we would not be ble to see otherwise.
One curious thing: How come when I clicked on the Cat's Eye, I gt a picture of the St. Lawrence River from 400 kilometres above?
ALSO: tomorrow would be my father's ONE-HUNDRED-EEVENTH birthday. He was born in 1908, and remembered Teddy Roosevelt, The Titanic, the beginnings of RADIO, ELECTRICITY, MOVIES, AUTOMOBILES, MASS PRODUCTION, AIR TRAVEL TheGREAT MIGRATION, ,the building of the SKYSCRAPERS in New York City, and a thousand o]ther things that made the Modern World back when everyone was still excited a delighted by Progress, and still /believe we could make H:eaven i]n earth through "INNOVATION."
Anyway, my dad was fascinated by thughts of Outer Space. I wish he were still alive, because he would really appreciate these phoos you and the the Hubble share with us more than most.
He was fascinated with the constallatins in the night sky
Good on your Dad. Man, I wonder what people who lived through the early 1900's thought as our culture changed through the 60's and beyond. I suspect like me they'd marvel at the technology and puke about the people.
The Cat's Eye nebula looks much more to me like an exceptionally beautiful ROSE in full bloom.
Could it just be an ACCIDENT that so may things we see, admire and wonder at so frequently in miniature –– right within reach –– appear to be echoed in the vast reaches of Outer Space?
Franco, One reason for that is that our minds, when processing what the eye sees and when the image isn't immediately recognizable, always tries to reconstruct the image into something we do recognize. This is why people see all sorts of things in clouds, or faces in random blotches of colors, and why rorshack tests work so well to provide a window into someone's mind.
Probably, Kid, but I'm still enthusiastic about searching for the possible INTERCONNECTEDNESS among all things. Yes I love to thinkof myself as an INDIVIDUAL, but at the same time I realize I am ALSO an integral part of something much larger.
Take for instance a beach. It's mde up of cutlass trillins of grains of sand. Each grain is separabl from all the rest, but TOGETHER these individual grains make a BEACH. So, I think it must be with humanity.
Alway, amyb I'm glng too far afield if you stop to think abut it the true nature of "REALITY" is so huge an hopeless to imagine and so mpossible ever to fully understand it never fails to gve me goose bumps.
This verse of the famous hymn, O, God, Our Help in Ages Past comes to mind whenever I think of Infinity:
A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
Somehow that helped me to realize at a young age that our entire universe may be nothing more than a tiny drop of water on the surface of a gigantic COSMIC SINK – or - nothing more than a single piece of ASH dropped from an ufathomably large COSMIC GIANT'S PIPE.
Such thoughts may seem silly or comical to some, but they never fail to give me goosebumps, while filing me with Awe and Wonder
Looking back I'm sure that having been made aware of molecules, atoms and electro-magnetic fields (demonstrated by holding a magnet under a piece of carboard sprunkled with steel filings) as far back as fourth grade helped lead me to an awareness of the magnitude of the Great Mystery of Existence, which helped mea great deal to develop faith in God.
And then ther's the charming line from Happy Talk sung by Bloody Mary in Rodgers'and Hammerstien's South Pacific:
Talk about the moon floatin' in the sky Lookin' like a lily on a lake ...
I don't know how many Americans realize it, but the sng lyricist, Oscar Hammerein II, was one of Amerca's greatest poets. The Academic Commnty mught want o uestiin that, but after havung wrtten more than a thousand poms, myself, many of which have been publushed, I feel I have every right to voice that opinion. Oscr Hammerstein II had the virtue of SIMPLICITY. He could touch yur heart to the quick with just a few remarkably well-chosen words, and never le you know there was anything the least bit cintrived about it.
Who else would have imagined the moon looking like a lily in a lake under the night sky?
SO BEAUTIFUL....I wonder if astronauts who are up there see some of these nebulas?!
ReplyDeleteThe reason it is so beautiful, and the reason it is so far beyond description is because God created it.
DeleteDarn Right Sam. Perfection at the moment of creation. Perfection as it evolves through time.
DeleteCelestial beauty.
ReplyDeleteBeyond description Ed.
DeleteZ, I cannot tell a lie.... Most of theee images are very heavily processed: Filtered so that various elements such as sulfur, oxygen, helium, etc show up as seperate colors. The Cat's Eye image is a composite of a visual image combined with an x-ray image. It's usually unlikely that with the naked eye we would see anything beside the bluish light image you can see when looking at anything in the sky. Makes me lose interest in getting a telescope.
ReplyDeleteI believe some of the nebulas do appear pinkish to the naked eye though.
Thanks for the kind word, Kid, though I probably d]n't deserve it. These pictures are as beautiful, mysterious, and awe-inspiring as ever. thans too for the explanatiin to Z about how they are "processed" in order to bring out characteristics we would not be ble to see otherwise.
ReplyDeleteOne curious thing: How come when I clicked on the Cat's Eye, I gt a picture of the St. Lawrence River from 400 kilometres above?
Sory, but I don't get the connection.
ALSO: tomorrow would be my father's ONE-HUNDRED-EEVENTH birthday. He was born in 1908, and remembered Teddy Roosevelt, The Titanic, the beginnings of RADIO, ELECTRICITY, MOVIES, AUTOMOBILES, MASS PRODUCTION, AIR TRAVEL TheGREAT MIGRATION, ,the building of the SKYSCRAPERS in New York City, and a thousand o]ther things that made the Modern World back when everyone was still excited a delighted by Progress, and still /believe we could make H:eaven i]n earth through "INNOVATION."
DeleteAnyway, my dad was fascinated by thughts of Outer Space. I wish he were still alive, because he would really appreciate these phoos you and the the Hubble share with us more than most.
He was fascinated with the constallatins in the night sky
Bad Link Franco. Fixed just now.
DeleteGood on your Dad. Man, I wonder what people who lived through the early 1900's thought as our culture changed through the 60's and beyond. I suspect like me they'd marvel at the technology and puke about the people.
The Cat's Eye nebula looks much more to me like an exceptionally beautiful ROSE in full bloom.
DeleteCould it just be an ACCIDENT that so may things we see, admire and wonder at so frequently in miniature –– right within reach –– appear to be echoed in the vast reaches of Outer Space?
Franco, One reason for that is that our minds, when processing what the eye sees and when the image isn't immediately recognizable, always tries to reconstruct the image into something we do recognize. This is why people see all sorts of things in clouds, or faces in random blotches of colors, and why rorshack tests work so well to provide a window into someone's mind.
DeleteProbably, Kid, but I'm still enthusiastic about searching for the possible INTERCONNECTEDNESS among all things. Yes I love to thinkof myself as an INDIVIDUAL, but at the same time I realize I am ALSO an integral part of something much larger.
DeleteTake for instance a beach. It's mde up of cutlass trillins of grains of sand. Each grain is separabl from all the rest, but TOGETHER these individual grains make a BEACH. So, I think it must be with humanity.
Alway, amyb I'm glng too far afield if you stop to think abut it the true nature of "REALITY" is so huge an hopeless to imagine and so mpossible ever to fully understand it never fails to gve me goose bumps.
Good analogy Franco. And since you bring up stars and grains of sand you will appreciate this short write up talking about the number of stars for each grain of sand on all the world's beaches.
DeleteHere's the link - https://www.cosmotography.com/images/m8-m20_desc.html
DeleteI can see Russia from the window..... hmmmm ??
ReplyDeleteLink fixed on Cats Eye Bunk.
DeleteTHANKS...... :)
DeleteI love that purple one! So gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteOur universe is amazing beyond words.
AOW, And most of this comes from in and around our own galaxy. "They" estimate there are 10 trillion galaxies now in the known universe.
DeleteThe word Infinity keeps popping up.
This verse of the famous hymn, O, God, Our Help in Ages Past comes to mind whenever I think of Infinity:
DeleteA thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone,
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
Somehow that helped me to realize at a young age that our entire universe may be nothing more than a tiny drop of water on the surface of a gigantic COSMIC SINK – or - nothing more than a single piece of ASH dropped from an ufathomably large COSMIC GIANT'S PIPE.
Such thoughts may seem silly or comical to some, but they never fail to give me goosebumps, while filing me with Awe and Wonder
Looking back I'm sure that having been made aware of molecules, atoms and electro-magnetic fields (demonstrated by holding a magnet under a piece of carboard sprunkled with steel filings) as far back as fourth grade helped lead me to an awareness of the magnitude of the Great Mystery of Existence, which helped mea great deal to develop faith in God.
And then ther's the charming line from Happy Talk sung by Bloody Mary in Rodgers'and Hammerstien's South Pacific:
ReplyDeleteTalk about the moon floatin' in the sky
Lookin' like a lily on a lake ...
I don't know how many Americans realize it, but the sng lyricist, Oscar Hammerein II, was one of Amerca's greatest poets. The Academic Commnty mught want o uestiin that, but after havung wrtten more than a thousand poms, myself, many of which have been publushed, I feel I have every right to voice that opinion. Oscr Hammerstein II had the virtue of SIMPLICITY. He could touch yur heart to the quick with just a few remarkably well-chosen words, and never le you know there was anything the least bit cintrived about it.
Who else would have imagined the moon looking like a lily in a lake under the night sky?
INCREDIBLE!
I have clicked the pics repeatedly in order to fill up Franco's KidPal account...
ReplyDeleteH_____U_____H_____?
DeleteGood Work DaBlade. He'll appreciate it.
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