by Ann » Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:27 am
Dusty indeed.
Cepheus is a very dusty and nebula-filled constellation. There are many hot bright stars in it, but they look less bright and far less blue than they should, because of all the dust that is dimming and reddening them. Some of those hot bright but dust-reddened stars are
Lambda Cephei,
26 Cephei,
19 Cephei,
9 Cepehi and
HD 206267, the star ionizing of the
Elephant's Trunk Nebula.
So sometimes I feel like saying,
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1997) wrote:
There was an old woman tossed up in a basket
Seventeen times as high as the moon.
Where she was going I couldn't but ask it
For in her arms she carried a broom.
'Old woman old woman old woman!' quoth I
Where are you going to up so high
'To brush the cobwebs off the sky.'
'May I come with you?'
'Aye, by and by.'
But of course, without those dusty cobwebs in the sky there would be far fewer bright blue stars in the sky, or none at all. So the Dusty King rules, after all, and seventeen times as high as the Moon is far from enough to
brush his cobwebs away!
Ann
Those things may not be cobwebs... oh well...
Dusty indeed. [url=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nrq5TqDSCpM/UubF5EManGI/AAAAAAAAK7Q/ts8PXxEKkNw/s0/CepheusMAp.jpg]Cepheus is a very dusty and nebula-filled constellation[/url]. There are many hot bright stars in it, but they look less bright and far less blue than they should, because of all the dust that is dimming and reddening them. Some of those hot bright but dust-reddened stars are [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_Cephei]Lambda Cephei[/url], [url=http://www.astrostudio.org/xhip.php?hip=110817]26 Cephei[/url], [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_Cephei]19 Cephei[/url], [url=http://www.astrostudio.org/xhip.php?hip=106801]9 Cepehi[/url] and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_206267]HD 206267[/url], the star ionizing of the [url=http://s7d5.scene7.com/is/image/Orion/ap754_8232011?scl=1]Elephant's Trunk Nebula[/url].
So sometimes I feel like saying,
[float=right][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/93/e5/12/93e5127ace7450e975afc7c6c80611cb.jpg[/img][/float][quote]Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1997) wrote:
There was an old woman tossed up in a basket
Seventeen times as high as the moon.
Where she was going I couldn't but ask it
For in her arms she carried a broom.
'Old woman old woman old woman!' quoth I
Where are you going to up so high
'To brush the cobwebs off the sky.'
'May I come with you?'
'Aye, by and by.'[/quote]
But of course, without those dusty cobwebs in the sky there would be far fewer bright blue stars in the sky, or none at all. So the Dusty King rules, after all, and seventeen times as high as the Moon is far from enough to [url=https://fortresstakes.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/merlin_bbc_season_3_fisher_king_trident_cobwebs.jpg]brush his cobwebs away[/url]!
Ann
[size=50]Those things may not be cobwebs... oh well...[/size]