Starship Asterisk*

Try looking at the photo in 3-d (red/green) glasses. You get a real sense of some filaments closer than others.

Ann I thought you'd be all over this apod with all the colorful stars!

I like it! You can make out a face like image wearing the Helmet! I think Thor's Helmet fits NGC 2359 perfectly! 8-) He's gpt a big nose; but nobody's perfect. :lol2:

This APOD of it looks to me like the Egyptian Bull God...because of the "disc" between the horns...and the red "eye like" star...
take a look - see....
[url]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Apis_bull_on_coffin.jpg[/url]

Maybe we should rename it...
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Off topic:

When I was young and moved into my first apartment, I bought dark blue curtains set with dots of blue, green, purple and turquoise. I liked the curtains at first, but soon the turquoise parts of them were getting on my nerves, and soon I felt that I had to get new curtains, or I would go crazy. My new curtains, which I still use all the time, are off-white, mildly rose-pink, and blue. [url=http://bf-astro.com/m74/m74a.jpg]Kind of like the colors of a spiral galaxy[/url] when you think of it.

When I saw the turquoise and orange colors of today's APOD, I shied away like a frightened horse. So I'll leave it to the rest of you to discuss it!


[spoiler]Random person: Ann, there is a snake over there.

Ann: Okay.

Random person: It's a [url=https://i.imgur.com/NdVDQdf.jpg]turquoise snake[/url]. With orange eyes!

Ann: GAAAAHHHH!!!![/spoiler]

Ann

This image looks much more like a dog or bear. You can see two eyes, ears, a snout, and front & back legs.

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190216.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_190216.jpg[/img] [size=150]NGC 2359: Thor's Helmet[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] NGC 2359 is a helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages popularly called Thor's Helmet. Heroically sized even for a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor]Norse god[/url], Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is more like [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131214.html]an interstellar bubble[/url], blown as a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center inflates a region within the surrounding molecular cloud. Known as a [url=http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980603a.html]Wolf-Rayet star[/url], the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050910.html]supernova[/url] stage of evolution. NGC 2359 [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100319.html]is located[/url] about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation [url=http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=115]Canis Major[/url]. The [url=http://www.pampaskies.com/gallery3/Deep-Space-Objects/TH_LHORHGOBO_final]remarkably detailed image[/url] is a mixed cocktail of data from broadband and narrowband filters that captures natural looking stars and the glow of [url=http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/118/2/948]the nebula's[/url] filamentary structures. It highlights a blue-green color from strong emission [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulium]due to oxygen[/url] atoms in the glowing gas.


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