Starship Asterisk*

I had this image open on my browser when my wife looked at it and she said " It looks like The god and Adam panel of the ceiling of the Sistine chapel".
I put this image and one of the panel of the ceiling (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Nuta_CQvImI/TBPxG681NpI/AAAAAAAACEk/dWjS4Msuffk/s1600/Creation-of-Adam-by-Michelangelo.jpg)
in Photoshop on two different layers and adjusted the opacity , sure enough it lines up quite well. after enlarging and slightly moving the ceiling photo.

Don't know how to post a photo.

Interesting.

[quote="APOD Robot"][url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120506.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_120506.jpg[/img] [size=150]In the Center of the Omega Nebula[/size][/url]

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No explicit mention of this being the 17th Pearl of Messier. :(

[quote="zbvhs"]Any idea what the circular object upper right might be?[/quote]

It's Cthulhu.

It looks like a Herbig-Haro object...I see jetting of Ha
Lynn Hilborn

Any idea what the circular object upper right might be?

I guess i'm just tooo spoiled. All that information, on a weekend, and not even one little itty-bitty [i]funny[/i] link. Oh-well, that's the way it goes sometimes.

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