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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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Does anyone else see the universe giving us the finger from 8000 light years away? Super hero, indeed...
GREEBLIE
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:43:03 PM PDT
by
Greeblie
To: Greeblie
That was the 1st thing I thought of.
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:45:32 PM PDT
by
mad puppy
To: Greeblie
The Cosmic Bird.
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:45:38 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: Greeblie
Confirms my worst fears. We're screwed!
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:45:51 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
To: Greeblie
Fickle Finger of Fate
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:47:22 PM PDT
by
csvset
To: Greeblie
Luckily it looks like the "bird"'s being flipped at some other galaxy! ;-)
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:52:16 PM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(Support Our Troops!)
To: Greeblie
Actually, I think the universe has been doing that to me since around February.
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:55:12 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: Greeblie
Right on...
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:56:40 PM PDT
by
bert
(Don't Panic!)
To: Greeblie
The Cosmic Bird Nebula. Truly this should show liberals that God's pissed at them. It was found with a taxpayer monied program.
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:57:28 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: Greeblie
Actually... if you tilt your head 45 degrees to the right, it looks like the profile of Richard Nixon.
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:58:38 PM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(Free Miguel and Priscilla!)
To: msdrby
The universe is hostile.
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:59:18 PM PDT
by
Prof Engineer
( Texans don't even care where Europe is on the map.)
To: PatrickHenry; longshadow; Junior; jennyp; balrog666; RadioAstronomer; Piltdown_Woman
Evidence for a Misanthropic Principle?
To: Greeblie
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). Ummm...yeah.
To: Mr. Jeeves
Or...
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:03:23 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: VadeRetro
I always thought God's Last Message to His Creation was "We apologize for the inconvenience."
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:06:13 PM PDT
by
Junior
("Eat recycled food. It's good for the environment and okay for you...")
To: Greeblie
If I'm not mistake, that's pointed at the Democrat nebula.
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:10:06 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Vote RIPublican in 2004: Socialism's kinder gentler party: "We will leave no wallet left behind!")
To: VadeRetro; RadioAstronomer
Otherwise entitled, "God speaks"...
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:13:29 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
(Oh, evolve!)
To: DoughtyOne
"...and the Lord did grin..."
To: Greeblie
This explains so much! :)
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:15:34 PM PDT
by
Grig
To: Greeblie
This dense cloud of gas and dust is being deleted. Too bad this thread isn't.
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:16:19 PM PDT
by
SGCOS
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