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Boomer12k
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by Boomer12k » Tue Dec 31, 2013 9:33 am
Always a pleasure....
The vertical streams remind me of Aurora....only red....
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biddie67
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by biddie67 » Tue Dec 31, 2013 4:08 pm
It seems to me that the horse head in this cloud has already become less distinct than the first pictures that I saw of it years ago.
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by Jim Armstrong » Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:04 pm
Thanks for another year of APOD's and Happy New Year.
It would be more in the tradition of avoiding assumptions if the text here read: "...assumed a recognizable shape presumably by chance."
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Chris Peterson
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by Chris Peterson » Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:10 pm
biddie67 wrote:It seems to me that the horse head in this cloud has already become less distinct than the first pictures that I saw of it years ago.
Most likely just a consequence of changing imaging technology. Dust nebulas don't evolve rapidly. I doubt there has been any obvious visual change in the Horsehead over a few decades.
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C0ppert0p
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by C0ppert0p » Tue Dec 31, 2013 6:44 pm
The "Man Playing a Flute" nebula, just off to the left of the Horse Head nebula, would be just as well know, if it were bigger
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BDanielMayfield
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by BDanielMayfield » Tue Dec 31, 2013 7:18 pm
C0ppert0p wrote:The "Man Playing a Flute" nebula, just off to the left of the Horse Head nebula, would be just as well know, if it were bigger
I like that, and it demonstrates a fractal nature to these interstellar cloud formations.
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by Ann » Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:37 am
BDanielMayfield wrote:C0ppert0p wrote:The "Man Playing a Flute" nebula, just off to the left of the Horse Head nebula, would be just as well know, if it were bigger
I like that, and it demonstrates a fractal nature to these interstellar cloud formations.
I like it too, and indeed, it demonstrates the fractal nature of cloud formations!
But the man playing the flute wasn't big enough for
Williamina Fleming to discover him!
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by Beyond » Thu Jan 02, 2014 2:05 am
Not much discussion or horsing around, this time around with the Horsehead Nebula, sooo... i think I'll post my
infrapink version again.
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