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APOD: NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula (2017 Sep 13)
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 4:06 am
by APOD Robot
NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula
Explanation: Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps
cats are for getting into
trouble. Still, no known cat could have created the vast
Cat's Paw Nebula visible in
Scorpius. At 5,500 light years distant, Cat's
Paw is an
emission nebula with a red color that originates from an abundance of
ionized hydrogen atoms. Alternatively known as the
Bear Claw Nebula or
NGC 6334, stars nearly ten times the mass of our
Sun have been born
there in only the past few million years.
Pictured here is a deep field image of the
Cat's Paw Nebula in light emitted by
hydrogen, oxygen, and
sulfur.
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Re: APOD: NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula (2017 Sep 13)
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 5:03 am
by Boomer12k
Or "the big, puffy, DOLL-thingy Nebula"....really nice...
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Re: APOD: NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula (2017 Sep 13)
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 6:13 am
by Guest
this should be the one that's called the "heart nebula"
Papa's polydactyl pussycats persevere
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:38 am
by neufer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/09/11/hemingways-six-toed-cats-survive-irma-still-have-nine-lives/?utm_term=.8088cd4d411a wrote:
Hemingway's six-toed cats survive Irma, still have nine lives
by Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, September 11
<<As day broke Monday, authorities were only beginning to assess the damage Hurricane Irma's brute force wrought on the delicate archipelago that is the Florida Keys.
But it became clear that one beloved tourist attraction had survived the storm unscathed: the colony of six-toed cats that resides at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum on Key West.
All 54 cats — and the 10 humans who hunkered down with them in the Spanish Colonial house the author called home in the 1930s — rode out the gusts with aplomb, curator David Gonzales told MSNBC Sunday night, after the worst of the storm had passed.
Some of the cats descended from Snow White, a six-toed white feline given to Hemingway by a ship's captain, according to the museum. Cats typically have five digits on their front paws and four on the rear.>>
Re: APOD: NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula (2017 Sep 13)
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:22 pm
by Ann
Thanks for posting that, Art! How incredibly cute!
I met a five-toed kitten in a shelter myself recently, although I've never seen a six-toed one.
Ann
Re: APOD: NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula (2017 Sep 13)
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:43 pm
by dlw
The "teddy bear"-like object above and just right of center has a very interesting texture (and 2 "ears"). Is it known what causes this unusual appearance?
Re: APOD: NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula (2017 Sep 13)
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 5:41 pm
by JohnD
Cat's paw? Bears paw? Astronomers clearly are neither pet owners or wild trackers.
Cats always show four pads, and bears show five, complete with claw tips.
You have to go back to ornithopod dinosaurs for a three toed footprint that isn't a bird's!
And of course "ornithopod" means 'birdfooted'.
John
