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APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:06 am
by APOD Robot
NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life
Explanation: Is this a painting or a photograph? In this beautiful celestial
still life composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula
NGC 2170 shines near the image center. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars,
NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish
reflection nebulae, a red
emission region, many dark
absorption nebulae, and a backdrop of
colorful stars. Like the common household items
still life painters often choose for their subjects, the clouds of gas, dust, and hot stars
pictured above are also commonly found in this setting - a massive, star-forming molecular cloud in the constellation of the
Unicorn (
Monoceros). The giant
molecular cloud,
Mon R2, is impressively close,
estimated to be only 2,400
light-years or so away. At that distance, this
canvas would be over 60 light-years across.
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Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:43 am
by Boomer12k
Looks like a Tongue sticking out in the middle.....
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Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:47 am
by Glenriven
Design us a way to get there! It's on you class of 2016.
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:08 am
by Ann
This is a lovely image, wonderfully colored and chock full of fantastic details. There are actually at least three emission nebulae here, although one is very small (at top, near a blue star there) and one is very large and faint (at far left).
Amazing structure can be seen in the dust, and, as I said, the colors are lovely. On ebright yellow star at far right seems to be surrounded by a retinue of fainter blue stars, as if it was a red supergiant accompanied by unevolved hot stars. But according to the parallaxes of the stars, that is probably not the case.
Anyway, it is a stunning sky vista, made even more beautiful in this image.
Ann
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:52 am
by Beyond
Most of the examples in the -still life painters- link, seemed to have died
disappeared, well,,, that's life.
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:36 pm
by Wally
Glenriven wrote:Design us a way to get there! It's on you class of 2016.
Invent a faster than light transport and then make a lot of sandwiches.
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:46 pm
by orin stepanek
Beautiful APOD! I kind of expected the Bird of Paradise to fly away!
I just had to bring the unicorn to the front; he's pretty cute!
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:48 pm
by dddavids@iupui.edu
If it were a painting, it wuld have taken the artist 2 lifetimes.
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:04 pm
by Tszabeau
This is a beautiful photograph but, I take exception that it is a stillife. It's more of a lands-scape. First, it's not a composed arrangement of inanimate objects. Secondly, it's not still. Thirdly, us painters are contrarions.
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:58 pm
by Wolf Kotenberg
It is a painting. I don't see any light spikes associated with the brighter stars. Pass me an ice cold one, please.
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:44 pm
by bystander
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:01 pm
by Chris Peterson
bystander wrote:It's a
photo.
I think you mean
foto.
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:44 pm
by Ann
Chris Peterson wrote:bystander wrote:It's a
photo.
I think you mean
foto.
Isn't that how you spell it????
Me Swedish!
Ann
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:08 pm
by Beyond
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:53 pm
by Wolf Kotenberg
in an irish pub they would say " it is a bloody painting, mate " With one exception.
Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:53 pm
by saturn2
This is a fhotograph of a beautiful " celestial painting "
Because the Universe is an " artist "