Solved: What is it? Space mystery object

[neufer]

The correct answer.

Very good! What struck me about this was that even with a large crop,
the result looked strikingly like a nebula rather than a solid body.

____________ AAUGH!

[RJN]

Identify the APOD from which this image fragment was taken.

[RJN]

Hint: It's a few million light years away.

[neufer]

Hint: It's a few million light years away.

Well...that's pretty much a dead giveaway on what it is (more or less)...now which APOD?

[gadieid]

I would guess M45
Gadi.

[geckzilla]

Found it. Only thing I knew without searching is that it had to be one of the older ones because it's pretty noisy.

...Am I supposed to do one now?

[RJN]

Yes. Your turn. I will take it off the APOD front page now! - RJN

[geckzilla]

Identify the APOD from which this image fragment was taken. Pretty popular one. Any APOD it came from will do. That's your only clue!

space mystery object #11

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[bystander]

I found nine going all the way back to 1996. I cheated, I used your image search engine, got the name, and searched APOD.

[neufer]

I cheated, I used your image search engine, got the name, and searched APOD.

You should be deported back to Melmac!

[rstevenson]

Can I try one? (Even though I'm woefully bad at identifying what others have posted.)

I was cutting out a piece of an image this afternoon and noticed a nice little bit nearby that would be an interesting one of these mystery objects.

Rob

[RJN]

It's OK by me. Bystander might have dibs but he only indicated he knew the answer, he did not give it.

[bystander]

I'll give the answer, geckzilla can verify it, and Rob can have my turn. It seems to have been a favorite.

NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf

• 2010 Feb 21
  2006 May 07
  2005 Jan 23
  2004 Jan 11
  2001 Aug 05
  2000 Jul 30
  1999 Jul 03 (My favorite: it's on my birthday)
  1998 Apr 26
  1996 Dec 03

Found NGC 2440 with a Tin Eye search.

[rstevenson]

I notice that some of the pics have been inside of [img] tags, but others inside of [attachment] tags. Is one preferred? If attachment is preferred, how do I do that? I don't see an attachment tag button in the post interface.

Rob

[bystander]

At the bottom of the post a new topic or post a reply are tabs for options and upload attachments. Select the upload attachments tab and follow the instructions. The last step is to select place inline which places your uploaded attachment on the page within the [attachment] tags. There is no real preference, except [img] assumes a permanent link to an image hosting site.

[geckzilla]

Yes, sorry, been a bit busy. Bystander is correct. Start the next one, Rob!

[rstevenson]

Okay, first time for me to tease the experts. The mystery will probably last only a few minutes, but who knows, I may get them snagged on irrelevancies.

This one is obviously within a certain kind of object, but the questions are...

Which object is it within?
What, in particular, are we looking at?
And, of course, which APOD is it from?

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Rob

[neufer]

<<Inscribed on Athena's shield is a Latin motto,
.
*OBSCURIS VERA INVOLVENS*
.
meaning *TRUTH is enveloped in obscurity* , which explains
. the imagery on the shield-the central sun representing
. TRUTH and the surrounding clouds obscurity.>>

[rstevenson]

<<...the central sun ... and the surrounding clouds obscurity.>>

Yes, exactly!

Does this mean I've stumped the experts? What do I win?

Perhaps I should offer up some nebulous clues...
* I should at least tell you it is within one of the most easily seen and most often photographed of the nebulae.
* I started from an extremely large image -- in the neighbourhood of 130MB on disk -- and cut only a small piece out of it. (It's a fun image to browse in.)
* It is, perhaps obviously, a star-forming region, and the central object is a new(ish) star. I doubt if it has a name, but coordinates would do as identifier.
* I have no idea what the red dots are.

Rob

[makc]

must be somewhere in here, overall colors and spike angles match, but I can't really seem to find it oh well, but, maybe I did narrowed it down enough for someone to spot it

[neufer]

must be somewhere in here, overall colors and spike angles match, but I can't really seem to find it oh well, but, maybe I did narrowed it down enough for someone to spot it

You're no Clyde Tombaugh!

(One would have to be blind not to see it! I think I can even see it here.)

[bystander]

* I have no idea what the red dots are.

Stars!

must be somewhere in here, overall colors and spike angles match, but I can't really seem to find it oh well, but, maybe I did narrowed it down enough for someone to spot it

makc got it. his turn in the barrel

lɯʇɥ˙222190dɐ/podɐ/ʌoƃ˙ɐsɐu˙podɐ//:dʇʇɥ
uoıɹo uı ƃuıɯɹoɟ ʍou sɯǝʇsʎs ʎɹɐʇǝuɐld

[neufer]

must be somewhere in here, overall colors and spike angles match, but I can't really seem to find it

makc got it. his turn in the barrel

lɯʇɥ˙222190dɐ/podɐ/ʌoƃ˙ɐsɐu˙podɐ//:dʇʇɥ
uoıɹo uı ƃuıɯɹoɟ ʍou sɯǝʇsʎs ʎɹɐʇǝuɐld

• __________ King Lear > Act IV, scene I
  
  GLOUCESTER: 'Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

[makc]

I only had to enter words "pink" and "apod" in g0ogle to find an image in #12, and didn't really find the star in it. But people insist that I should post next one. They probably all are a bit triskaidekaphobs deep inside.

Oh well, here's my choice:

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What could be more mysterious than a lonely bright thing in a black background Oh wait, it is not alone there, there's two of them... both are rather famous objects.

[makc]

neufer, now it's other way around: blind leading madmen any way, here you go.