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Astronomy Picture of the Dat - Reflections of the Ghost Nebula
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 26 Oct, 2020 | Image Credit & Copyright: Bogdan Jarzyna

Posted on 10/26/2020 4:05:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Do any shapes seem to jump out at you from this interstellar field of stars and dust? The jeweled expanse, filled with faint, starlight-reflecting clouds, drifts through the night in the royal constellation of Cepheus. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, these ghostly apparitions lurk along the plane of the Milky Way at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away. Over two light-years across and brighter than the other spooky chimeras, VdB 141 or Sh2-136 is also known as the Ghost Nebula, seen at toward the bottom of the featured image. Within the reflection nebula are the telltale signs of dense cores collapsing in the early stages of star formation.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; cepheusflare; ghostnebula; nasa; science; sh2136; vdb141
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1 posted on 10/26/2020 4:05:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 10/26/2020 4:06:14 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; America_Right; Art in Idaho; AZ .44 MAG; ...

Pinging the APOD list.


3 posted on 10/26/2020 4:07:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Dat is messed up.
Dat’s a lot of spores.
There’s a fungus among us.


4 posted on 10/26/2020 4:09:35 PM PDT by DannyTN
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It’s in space, so it must be the Space Ghoast nebula...


5 posted on 10/26/2020 4:11:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t see a thing. That’s my official position on the matter.


6 posted on 10/26/2020 4:15:14 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

The bug ghost took a cheeseburger from the little ghost and he won’t give it back. He says “go and trick or treat for another one and get another and some chips for me too”.


7 posted on 10/26/2020 4:29:08 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Who dat?

Dat be crazy.


8 posted on 10/26/2020 4:34:15 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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Dat is nice.

9 posted on 10/26/2020 4:40:04 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s a ghost...

A G-G-GHOST!?! [ZOOM!]


10 posted on 10/26/2020 4:40:38 PM PDT by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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To: MtnClimber

“No fries. Chips. Chips.”


11 posted on 10/26/2020 4:40:49 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: MtnClimber

In the middle, I see a couple of people with both arms extended upward.


12 posted on 10/26/2020 4:43:40 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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To: MtnClimber
Ghost Nebula?!!! Jinky's


13 posted on 10/26/2020 4:48:53 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Tb5—eiyo


14 posted on 10/26/2020 4:54:53 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: MtnClimber

Looks like a ghost With two witches on the Hog head nebula below urging him to fly away! (See its tusks?)


15 posted on 10/26/2020 6:02:07 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: SunkenCiv
You misspelled my name!

It's Space Ghost!

16 posted on 10/26/2020 6:33:02 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The only thing worse than COVID-19 is Biden-20!)
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To: DannyTN; Fungi

17 posted on 10/26/2020 6:35:07 PM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
My reading glasses are haunted!

18 posted on 10/26/2020 9:31:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Dat be kool!......................


19 posted on 10/27/2020 5:09:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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