Page 1 of 1
APOD: Close-up of the Bubble Nebula (2016 Apr 03)
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:07 am
by APOD Robot
Close-up of the Bubble Nebula
Explanation: It's the bubble versus the cloud. NGC 7635, the
Bubble Nebula, is being pushed out by the
stellar wind of massive central star
BD+602522. Next door, though, lives a giant
molecular cloud, visible to the right. At this place in space, an
irresistible force meets an
immovable object in an interesting way. The
cloud is able to contain the expansion of the bubble gas, but gets blasted by the hot radiation from the
bubble's central star. The
radiation heats up dense regions of the
molecular cloud causing it to glow. The
Bubble Nebula,
featured here in scientifically mapped colors to bring up contrast, is about 10
light-years across and part of a much
larger complex of stars and shells. The
Bubble Nebula can be seen with a small telescope towards the
constellation of the Queen of
Aethiopia (
Cassiopeia).
[/b]
Re: APOD: Close-up of the Bubble Nebula (2016 Apr 03)
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 9:17 am
by FungoSquiggly
Has anybody noted that the molecular cloud formation in the lower left of the image [pictured today] resembles the Statue of Liberty? Or is this particular formation already named?
Re: APOD: Close-up of the Bubble Nebula (2016 Apr 03)
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 10:01 pm
by Boomer12k
FungoSquiggly wrote:Has anybody noted that the molecular cloud formation in the lower left of the image [pictured today] resembles the Statue of Liberty? Or is this particular formation already named?
I kind of see your "Statue of Liberty"... but up above that, I see an Angel...wings expanded and all...
What would a Molecular Cloud be doing inside a bubble?
Molecular Clouds are dark, are they not? Like the example...
:---[===] *
Re: APOD: Close-up of the Bubble Nebula (2016 Apr 03)
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:20 am
by Brit_in_Exile
Close up ???? Interesting irony. This item is 10 light years across, if we could get close to it we would no longer be aware of it.
Re: APOD: Close-up of the Bubble Nebula (2016 Apr 03)
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 1:14 pm
by neufer
Brit_in_Exile wrote:
Close up ???? Interesting irony.
This item is 10 light years across, if we could get close to it we would no longer be aware of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-up wrote:
<<A close-up or closeup ... is a type of shot, which tightly frames a person or an object. Close-ups display the most detail, but they do not include the broader scene. Film historians disagree as to which filmmaker first used a close-up. One of the best claims is for George Albert Smith in Hove, who used medium close-ups in films as early as 1898 and by 1900 was incorporating extreme close-ups in films such as
As Seen Through a Telescope and Grandma's Reading Glass. In 1901, James Williamson, also working in Hove, made perhaps the most extreme close-up of all in
The Big Swallow, when his character approaches the camera and appears to swallow it.>>
Re: APOD: Close-up of the Bubble Nebula (2016 Apr 03)
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:44 am
by Asterhole
Reminds me of the closing scene in 2001 - A Space Odyssey.
