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by Regulus
Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:56 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Red Rectangle Nebula
Replies: 5
Views: 734

Re: Red Rectangle Nebula

The dust torus (invisibly small) around the star shapes the bi-polar outflows into these lobed shapes. Really? You think something as thin and wispish as a dust disk could cause such violent, high speed , and energetic events to be re-directed. Like the bow of a ship forces the water to either side...
by Regulus
Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:55 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)
Replies: 1200
Views: 193750

Re: APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)

It does look a bit like a Klingon War Bird but it instantly bought to mind a regular childhood occurrence.
Often walking across a field a flock of Quail would erupt from the grass almost underfoot. Heart attack stuff.
This looked just like a fleeing QUIAL when I saw it.