Type Control F and "horsehead in the search box. They've posted a bunch of different images of this thing.
Otherwise - Explanation: Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years "tall", the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is visible only because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the glowing red emission nebula IC 434. Stars are forming within the dark cloud. Contrasting blue reflection nebula NGC 2023, surrounding a hot, young star, is at the lower left of the full image. The featured gorgeous color image combines both narrowband and broadband images recorded using several different telescopes.
Franco, the red is Republican blood from the beating they've been given! I think it looks like a headless woman, too! 11 TRILLION EARTHS? That's a big exaggeration, RIGHT? YIKES!!
It doesn't LOOK like a HORSEHEAD anymore. It looks a lot mpre like a HEADLESS WOMAN wearing an old-fashioned long skirt
ReplyDeleteWhat's made the background so RED all of a sudden? A subtle show of support for REPUBLICANS?
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And yea, I can see various images. I might have named it the Cobra nebula.
DeleteFranco, Here is a link to the APOD Archive.
ReplyDeleteType Control F and "horsehead in the search box. They've posted a bunch of different images of this thing.
Otherwise - Explanation: Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years "tall", the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is visible only because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the glowing red emission nebula IC 434. Stars are forming within the dark cloud. Contrasting blue reflection nebula NGC 2023, surrounding a hot, young star, is at the lower left of the full image. The featured gorgeous color image combines both narrowband and broadband images recorded using several different telescopes.
Franco, the red is Republican blood from the beating they've been given! I think it looks like a headless woman, too!
ReplyDelete11 TRILLION EARTHS? That's a big exaggeration, RIGHT? YIKES!!
No Exaggeration Z. I did the math. Space is a. Big. Place. :-)
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