Starship Asterisk*

Ann wrote:A larger version of Martin Pugh's picture, with the proper color balance, is here.

Ann

owlice wrote:

henrystar wrote:
Surely this should be called the Paragraph Nebula? That is, § ?
Of course we are seeing it from the wrong side!

§ is a section mark! ¶ is for paragraph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign wrote:
<<The section sign (§, Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity &sect;) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. It is also called "double S", "hurricane", "sectional symbol", "the legal doughnut", signum sectiōnis. It is frequently used along with the pilcrow (¶), or paragraph sign. The likely origin of the section sign is the digraph formed by the combination of two S'es (from the Latin signum sectionis). When duplicated, as §§, it is read as the plural "sections" (§§ 13–21), much as "pp." (pages) is the plural of "p." (short for the Latin pagina).

The section symbol is used by horse racing rating service Timeform to denote a horse is unreliable.
Such a horse is usually referred to as a "squiggle horse".>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow wrote:
<<The pilcrow (¶), also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea (Latin: a lineā, "off the line"), or blind P, is a typographical character for individual paragraphs. It is present in Unicode as U+00B6 ¶ pilcrow sign. According to the OED, the word pilcrow "apparently" originated in English as an unattested version of the French pelagraphe, a corruption of paragraph; the earliest reference is c.1440.

In form, the pilcrow is understood to have originated as a letter C, for capitulum, "chapter" in Latin. This C was the paraph symbol that replaced in the function of marking off paragraphs the Greek-style paragraphos, and other symbols including the section sign. Moreover, the paraph also could be marked with a full-height sign similar to ¢ (cents) or with a double slash, originally symbols indicating a note from the scribe to the rubricator. The Oxford Universal Dictionary says "pilcrow" may be from "pulled [plucked] crow," based on its appearance.

The pilcrow can be used as an indent for separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1930s book, An Essay on Typography. The pilcrow was a type of rubrication used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of visually discrete paragraphs was commonplace.>>

ta152h0 wrote:

• should be called Fokker's Propeller galaxy

• Not to be confused with Fokker's Propeller nebula

neufer wrote:

owlice wrote:

henrystar wrote:
Surely this should be called the Paragraph Nebula? That is, § ?
Of course we are seeing it from the wrong side!

§ is a section mark! ¶ is for paragraph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign wrote:
<<The section sign (§, Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity &sect;) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. It is also called "double S", "hurricane", "sectional symbol", "the legal doughnut", signum sectiōnis. It is frequently used along with the pilcrow (¶), or paragraph sign. The likely origin of the section sign is the digraph formed by the combination of two S'es (from the Latin signum sectionis). When duplicated, as §§, it is read as the plural "sections" (§§ 13–21), much as "pp." (pages) is the plural of "p." (short for the Latin pagina).

The section symbol is used by horse racing rating service Timeform to denote a horse is unreliable.
Such a horse is usually referred to as a "squiggle horse".>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow wrote:
<<The pilcrow (¶), also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea (Latin: a lineā, "off the line"), or blind P, is a typographical character for individual paragraphs. It is present in Unicode as U+00B6 ¶ pilcrow sign. According to the OED, the word pilcrow "apparently" originated in English as an unattested version of the French pelagraphe, a corruption of paragraph; the earliest reference is c.1440.

In form, the pilcrow is understood to have originated as a letter C, for capitulum, "chapter" in Latin. This C was the paraph symbol that replaced in the function of marking off paragraphs the Greek-style paragraphos, and other symbols including the section sign. Moreover, the paraph also could be marked with a full-height sign similar to ¢ (cents) or with a double slash, originally symbols indicating a note from the scribe to the rubricator. The Oxford Universal Dictionary says "pilcrow" may be from "pulled [plucked] crow," based on its appearance.

The pilcrow can be used as an indent for separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1930s book, An Essay on Typography. The pilcrow was a type of rubrication used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of visually discrete paragraphs was commonplace.>>

geckzilla wrote:
You got neufered. It's better than getting neutered.

PhilT wrote:
My question is 'why doesn't the other galaxy appear to be distorted ?"

• 1) Our perspective on NGC 3718 makes it easier to see the distortion than in the case of NGC 3729
  2) They are oscillating distortions that is observed at near peak amplitude for NGC 3718 but near null amplitude for NGC 3729
  3) NGC 3729 is both more massive & more compact than NGC 3718 so it was less disturbed in the first place
  4) Something else.

Anthony Barreiro wrote:
It really does look like this galaxy is doing the dance
of Salome behind a veil of young blue stars.