Posted on 09/30/2020 4:03:29 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Yes, but have you ever experienced the Eagle Nebula with your ears ? The famous nebula, M16, is best known for the feast it gives your eyes, highlighting bright young stars forming deep inside dark towering structures. These light-years long columns of cold gas and dust are some 6,500 light-years distant toward the constellation of the Serpent (Serpens). Sculpted and eroded by the energetic ultraviolet light and powerful winds from M16's cluster of massive stars, the cosmic pillars themselves are destined for destruction. But the turbulent environment of star formation within M16, whose spectacular details are captured in this combined Hubble (visible) and Chandra (X-ray) image, is likely similar to the environment that formed our own Sun. In the featured video, listen for stars and dust sounding off as the line of sonification moves left to right, with vertical position determining pitch.
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It’s amazing how we get so involved in our puny existence on this one planet out of billions in a universe that is unimaginably big but such beautiful images as this make me step back for a moment and realize nothing is that critical.
And just enjoy the beauty of this incredible universe we live in
Absolutely beautiful. Hands down made by the finest artist in the Universe.
To me, it looks like Nancy Pelosi with an owl on her head holding the reins of a pony while she chokes a cat and Hillary Clinton trying to erase her computer.
Indeed.
“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
B. S. Haldane
You’ve spent too much time on FR.
I’ve never heard of him.
Yea public school.
No, it’s definitely Joe Biden’s leg hairs curling up.
They look more like horses or llamas than eagles, but what do I know?
The star generator...
I think it is an emu social distancing waiting in line for a cheeseburger.
Wow, I see a wolf in a zoot suit dancing (Upper left) underneath him a spikey cyclops, in front to the right, a large bearded king who looks like a chess piece, and a similar one further back behind him. Bottom center is an elongated deer.
(So glad to get off this planet and away from Democrat politics.)
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
― Albert Einstein
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“Albert Einstein”
Yah, I saw him in there too! Wild!
(No meds and Haven’t had a drink today!!! Just previews!)
Alcohol withdrawal leads to delerium tremens.
Wrap yourself in a blanket and lay on the floor.
It will pass in 72 hours.
I recommend watching Fantasia on loop to pass the time...
I see it!
I see it!
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