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Easy for me. M51 has always been one of my favorites. Regulus, Mars and Saturn was my second choice.

I can select only one? How will I be able to choose? :(

M51 is [i]extremely[/i] handsome in that image! Downright dashing! That galaxy sure knows how to put on the ritz, and all those pink rhinestones against that sky blue suit and the little yellow "brooch" in the middle holding the swirling starry cape together - why, Elvis Presley and Liberace would have been green with envy!

On the other hand, how can I resist magnificent Leo dipping his head down towards the mountains of Kurdistan, as the red God of War keeps the Lion's azure Little King company while gloomy Saturn glowers white and the heavenly Hair is waving above?

And the Sun sure doesn't look too bad like this. I'll say. For a false-color image, it's pretty magnificent.

Hey, I even like the comet image! Note the deliciously blue-green coma!

I'm not going to vote for that other cosmic hair image and not for the Falcon launch, but that still leaves me with four images I [i]might[/i] vote for, three images I love and two images I [i]really [/i]love! I mean really!

But, okay. I will have to vote for just one, and although I [i]love[/i] the Leo image - I really, really do - it is perhaps time for me to stand up for my love of beautiful lovely spiral galaxies and vote for M51. So I guess I will. But let me tell you, Owlice, I sure hate not being able to vote for Leo too!

Ann

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Please vote (once) for the best Astronomy PIcture of the Week (image and text) for June 6-12.
(Repeated APODs are not included in the poll.)

All images are clickable and link to the original APOD page.

Thank you!
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[b][size=150]Comet McNaught Becoming Visible to the Unaided Eye, June 7[/size][/b]
[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100607.html][img]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1006/mcnaught2009r1_hernandez.jpg[/img][/url]


[b][size=150]Falcon 9 Launches to Orbit, June 8[/size][/b]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP5gykvTBpM&hl[/youtube]
[url]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100608.htm[/url]


[b][size=150]Orange Sun Simmering, June 9[/size][/b]
[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100609.html][img]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1006/orangesun_friedman.jpg[/img][/url]


[b][size=150]Regulus and the Red Planet, June 10[/size][/b]
[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100610.html][img]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1006/MarsLeoKurdistan3_tafreshi900.jpg[/img][/url]


[b][size=150]Hydrogen in M51, June 11[/size][/b]
[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100611.html][img]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1006/M51_peris900r.jpg[/img][/url]


[b][size=150]The Medusa Nebula, June 12[/size][/b]
[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100612.html][img]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1006/medusa_franke900.jpg[/img][/url]