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Atronony Picture Of The Day, June 30, 2003
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| June 30, 2003
| NASA
Posted on 07/01/2003 1:43:03 PM PDT by Greeblie
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2003 June 30
Disappearing Clouds in Carina
Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), N. Walborn (STScI) & R. Barbß (La Plata Obs.), NASA
Explanation: This dense cloud of gas and dust is being deleted. Likely, within a few million years, the intense light from bright stars will have boiled it away completely. Stars not yet formed in the molecular cloud's interior will then stop growing. The cloud has broken off of part of the greater Carina Nebula, a star forming region about 8000 light years away. Newly formed stars are visible nearby, their images reddened by blue light being preferentially scattered by the pervasive dust. This unusually-colored image spans about two light years and was taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. This Carina sub-cloud is particularly striking partly because its clear definition stimulates the human imagination (e.g. it could be perceived as a superhero flying through a cloud, arm up, with a saved person in tow below).
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; carinanebula; cosmos; crabnebula; finger; funny; gordo; gordocooper; gordoncooper; humor; science
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To: DoughtyOne
Nice shot.
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:17:00 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Grig
>>"This explains so much! :)"
Yes, but what is Atronony?
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:19:12 PM PDT
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(Once a soldier, always a soldier. They enemies of freedom never rest.)
To: Greeblie
8000 light years away In astronomy, distances are measured in units of light years, where one light year is the distance that light travels in a year10 trillion kilometers.
Awesome numbers.
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:20:31 PM PDT
by
SGCOS
To: Only1choice____Freedom
Yes, but what is Atronony?My pathetic attempt to speel ;-)
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:23:21 PM PDT
by
Greeblie
(Apatheist since 1962...)
To: Greeblie
How come my astro photography doesn't come out this good :)
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:25:13 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(I am a Librarian. I don't know anything....I just know where to look it up.)
To: Mr. Jeeves
Actually, it looks more like the superhero is carrying the carcass of a skinned ferret. Then again, it could be a skinned rat, I'll give you that.
</rorschach>
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:37:00 PM PDT
by
alnitak
("That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" - Foghorn Leghorn)
To: Greeblie
Yep, I saw what you saw.
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:46:02 PM PDT
by
msdrby
(If you are not part of the solution, you are in the way. Get outta the way!)
To: Greeblie
Who cut G-d off on the Universal Freeway???
Pray for GW and the Truth
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:53:47 PM PDT
by
bray
( Old Glory Stands for Freedom)
To: VadeRetro
niz pic.
Speaking of "seeing things" that aren't really there, I think it was Gordon Cooper, one of the original 7 Mercury astronauts, who turned the tables on the psychologists who were constantly poking and prodding the astronauts. When one of the lab-coat guys showed a Rorchach ink-blob to him and asked "what do you see?" Gordo replied with mock-indignanation: "How should I know; it's upside down!"
To: Conan the Librarian
Ummmm......forgot to use a Hubble?;-)
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:54:49 PM PDT
by
StriperSniper
(Frogs are for gigging)
To: longshadow
Then there's the Rorshach joke that ends with, "I'm obsessed with sex? You're the one with all the filthy pictures!"
To: StriperSniper
Got a Meade 416 CCD....I demand the same quality!
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posted on
07/01/2003 7:32:26 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(I am a Librarian. I don't know anything....I just know where to look it up.)
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