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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble
NASA ^ | April 22, 2013 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 04/22/2013 6:15:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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[Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STSci/AURA)]

1 posted on 04/22/2013 6:15:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
I love me some nebula -- here's the big version.

2 posted on 04/22/2013 6:17:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for posting this.

I saw the picture on APOD last night.

Isn’t it just beautiful ?


3 posted on 04/22/2013 6:19:28 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: SunkenCiv

That is some incredible resolution.


4 posted on 04/22/2013 6:20:02 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: SunkenCiv

One of the Very BEST!

Thanks, Sunky!


5 posted on 04/22/2013 6:22:11 PM PDT by left that other site ((Ban the ubiquitous and deadly solvent, Di-hydrogen monoxide!!!))
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To: bigheadfred

I’m guessing they use a high pass filter in post processing to bring out the texture.


6 posted on 04/22/2013 6:23:44 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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I think they use magic.


7 posted on 04/22/2013 6:26:09 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: SunkenCiv

And to think that there are educated people who are *convinced* that there’s no God.


8 posted on 04/22/2013 6:27:30 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Digital sensors on cameras let us see amazing thing nowadays.


9 posted on 04/22/2013 6:57:46 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1, Half Baked 50c)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s gonna be gone in a few million years? Eh......Cher will probably still be around.


10 posted on 04/22/2013 7:08:47 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SunkenCiv

It looks like Jar Jar Binks


11 posted on 04/22/2013 7:09:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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12 posted on 04/22/2013 7:12:16 PM PDT by mikrofon (APOD Bump)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ethereal

Thanks, ‘Civ.


13 posted on 04/22/2013 7:18:01 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: SunkenCiv

WOW!
Thanks so much!


14 posted on 04/22/2013 7:21:18 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: SunkenCiv

that is just plain creepy looking, especially the fleshy color. my imagination is going 4-goose bozo sci-fi crazy.


15 posted on 04/22/2013 7:31:17 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (We should not fear our government. Our government shoud fear us.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Canst thou....loose the bands of Orion?” Job 38:31


16 posted on 04/22/2013 7:43:21 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....nearly 2,000 years and still working today!)
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17 posted on 04/22/2013 8:54:02 PM PDT by Slyfox (The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin is smiling from hell)
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To: SunkenCiv

Bizarre. Amazing! Beautiful.


18 posted on 04/22/2013 8:59:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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Well done, Slyfox. That thought ran through my head. Baby nebula.

life

Magnificent

BUMP!


19 posted on 04/23/2013 4:48:13 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: SunkenCiv

Saw this one through a buddy’s 22 inch Obsession scope.

It didn’t look like that.

Telescope-wise, this is a really big sucker!


20 posted on 04/23/2013 7:41:57 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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