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[quote="DianaA"]The center area of this image has always reminded me of a whirling dervish dancing.

Diana[/quote]
I was just thinking about that particular resemblance

The center area of this image has always reminded me of a whirling dervish dancing.

Diana

Rare image

[quote="Ron-Astro Pharmacist"]I love the contemplative face in the Soul Nebula.

[img2]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1510/IC1871_HSTwager.jpg[/img2]

It's as if its mind blends into the soul of the nebula. 8-)[/quote]
And, over at 3:00 the black ape dancing on the elephants back

[quote="heehaw"][quote="MarkBour"][quote="henrystar"]All this dramatic stuff going on in our Galaxy and billions of other galaxies for billions of years ... and no one to appreciate any of it, until us. ( Or?)[/quote]
But what do you mean when you say you "appreciate it" ?[/quote]
1. recognize the full worth of.
2. understand (a situation) fully; recognize the full implications of.[/quote]
Okay, a Google[tm] definition! But I wasn't looking for a Google[tm] definition of a word. I was probing to find out what [i]henrystar[/i] meant by it.

I love the contemplative face in the Soul Nebula.

[attachment=0]IC1871_HSTwager1024.jpg[/attachment]

It's as if its mind blends into the soul of the nebula. 8-)

[quote="MarkBour"][quote="henrystar"]All this dramatic stuff going on in our Galaxy and billions of other galaxies for billions of years ... and no one to appreciate any of it, until us. ( Or?)[/quote]
But what do you mean when you say you "appreciate it" ?[/quote]
1. recognize the full worth of.
2. understand (a situation) fully; recognize the full implications of.

So much universe – so few souls to appreciate it. Unless you count the billions of us on just one planet. If there are billions of life-sustaining planets in the billions of galaxies maybe the universe [i]needs[/i] to get bigger? :wink:

[quote="henrystar"]All this dramatic stuff going on in our Galaxy and billions of other galaxies for billions of years ... and no one to appreciate any of it, until us. ( Or?)[/quote]
But what do you mean when you say you "appreciate it" ?

This is a great region of the Soul Nebula! The whole Soul Nebula is catalogued as IC 1848 while this small part is catalogued separately as IC 1871. A RGB image by Adam Block can be seen [url=http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/ic1848.shtml]here[/url]. IC 1871 can be seen in relation to IC 1848 in [url=http://www.starpointing.com/ccd/heartsoul_labeled.html]this widefield mosaic by Fabian Neyer[/url].

All this dramatic stuff going on in our Galaxy and billions of other galaxies for billions of years ... and no one to appreciate any of it, until us. ( Or?)

[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151029.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_151029.jpg[/img] [size=150]IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] [url=http://swagastro.weebly.com/images-gallery.html]This cosmic close-up[/url] looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871. About 25 light-years across, the telescopic field of view spans only a small part of the much larger [url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/wiseimage20100524.html]Heart and Soul[/url] nebulae. At an estimated distance of 6,500 light-years the star-forming complex lies within the Perseus spiral arm [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080606.html]of the Milky Way[/url], seen in planet Earth's skies toward the constellation Cassiopeia. An example of [url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/20080722.html]triggered star formation[/url], the dense star-forming clouds of IC 1871 are themselves sculpted by the intense winds and radiation of the region's massive young stars. This color image adopts a [url=http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/eagle.php]palette made popular[/url] in Hubble images of star-forming regions.

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