Posted on 07/28/2020 7:09:36 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Dark shapes with bright edges winging their way through dusty NGC 6188 are tens of light-years long. The emission nebula is found near the edge of an otherwise dark and large molecular cloud in the southern constellation Ara, about 4,000 light-years away. Born in that region only a few million years ago, the massive young stars of the embedded Ara OB1 association sculpt the fantastic shapes and power the nebular glow with stellar winds and intense ultraviolet radiation. The recent star formation itself was likely triggered by winds and supernova explosions, from previous generations of massive stars, that swept up and compressed the molecular gas. The featured image accumulated over 10 hours through a backyard telescope in Córdoba, Argentina and was false-colored using the Hubble palette highlighting emission from sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms in red, green, and blue hues. The field of view spans about four full Moons, corresponding to about 150 light years at the estimated distance of NGC 6188.
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To me, it looks like a cat eating a cheeseburger.
When I turn my IPAD 90 degrees, it looks like a cat eating a cheeseburger while laying on his back.
ah... I see ... two hammer head sharks, from below
Are you sure it isn't a lynx eating a double whopper?
You know, therapists all over the world use the ink blot test to see what is going on in someone’s mind.
In your case, I think they would diagnose “nuttier than a fruitcake”.
That was my diagnosis too.
Ahhhhhh.....
Interesting.......
Could be.....
Nope.
It’s a cat eating a cheeseburger.
With good old American cheese and none of that fancy cheddar.
I wonder if the new generation of stars will create elements unknown to us in their cores.
I’ve seen some Globulars in Ara, but, most of it is too low to see from South Georgia. One day, we are going to sail far enough south for me to see such things easily.
Also, I wish the authors of such articles wouldn’t say these things are ‘born’. They aren’t born, they are formed.
Egg Foo Yung with ketchup.
There’s a phallic structure in the bottom right hand corner, about an inch up and a quarter inch to the left.
*APOD ping*
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