Starship Asterisk*

APOD Robot wrote:
When imaged with the Earth-orbiting <a href="http://www.stsci.edu/hst/HST_overview]Hubble Space Telescope[/url]...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7027 wrote:
<<[NGC 7027] was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1996. Prior to these observations, NGC 7027 was thought to be a proto-planetary nebula with the central star too cool to ionize any of the gas, but it is now known to be a planetary nebula in the earliest stage of its development.

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In a 6" telescope at around 50x it appears as a relatively bright bluish star. At magnifications around 180x a vaguely ursine shape has led to the epithet of the "Gummy Bear Nebula". It is best viewed with the highest magnification possible.>>

Mathgirlgeek wrote:
I do agree that it looks like a pillow, but I also think it could be the Marshmallow Nebula

• Shakespeare's Stratford Sack?

https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/stratford-monument-fraud/ wrote:

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The Stratford Monument: A Monumental Fraud
by Richard Whalen

Figure 1 (left): Dugdale’s sketch of the Stratford monument made in 1634 during his visit to Stratford. Courtesy of Sir William Dugdale, a descendant. Photo courtesy of Gerald Downs.

Figure 2 (right): Hollar’s engraving of the monument in Dugdale, published in 1656, 1730 and 1765 editions.

Mathgirlgeek wrote:I do agree that it looks like a pillow, but I also think it could be the Marshmallow Nebula