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The Lively Center of the Lagoon Nebula (Astronomy Picture of the Day)
APOD.NASA ^
| 1 Jun, 2020
| NASA/Diego Gravinese
Posted on 06/19/2020 8:57:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: The center of the Lagoon Nebula is a whirlwind of spectacular star formation. Visible near the image center, at least two long funnel-shaped clouds, each roughly half a light-year long, have been formed by extreme stellar winds and intense energetic starlight. A tremendously bright nearby star, Herschel 36, lights the area. Vast walls of dust hide and redden other hot young stars. As energy from these stars pours into the cool dust and gas, large temperature differences in adjoining regions can be created generating shearing winds which may cause the funnels. This picture, spanning about 15 light years, features two colors detected by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The Lagoon Nebula, also known as M8, lies about 5000 light years distant toward the constellation of the Archer Sagittarius.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; herschel36; lagoonnebula; m8; messierobject; science
To: MtnClimber
I missed posting this one a few days ago. A great Hubble Photo.
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posted on
06/19/2020 8:58:43 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/19/2020 8:59:43 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/19/2020 9:01:10 PM PDT
by
Dogbert41
(Jerusalem is the city of the Great King!!!)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/19/2020 9:06:52 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
Those are amazing images from an amazing AMERICAN technological innovation - a space telescope that is exploring new frontiers of space - exposed to us for the first time.
Hubble is a great example of American Ingenuity and the American Spirit of exploration, curiosity about the known and unknown and seen and unseen worlds.
May it continue in perpetuity.
But this is what the likes of Antifa and their cohorts in the Democratic party wish to destroy.
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posted on
06/19/2020 9:21:01 PM PDT
by
Bon of Babble
(In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby)
To: MtnClimber
Super pic, but I had to put it up on the big plasma.
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06/19/2020 9:32:56 PM PDT
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umgud
To: MtnClimber
Surely the largest image ever posted here. But that’s not an award category.
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posted on
06/19/2020 9:35:18 PM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: MtnClimber
Just think... With those great pictures/galactic maps the end of the Roswell kids’ story might have been totally different...
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posted on
06/19/2020 9:42:33 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/19/2020 10:12:45 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: MtnClimber
That’s a large picture...is it life size???
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posted on
06/20/2020 7:57:39 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/20/2020 8:08:57 AM PDT
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fieldmarshaldj
(Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
To: fieldmarshaldj
[singing] with Gilligan, the Skipper too...
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06/20/2020 8:31:04 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: MtnClimber
I can’t,for the life of me,understand how any astronomer can be *convinced* that there’s no God.
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06/20/2020 10:43:10 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
To: MtnClimber
#5 That photo is as big as the universe.
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posted on
06/20/2020 4:05:37 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
To: minnesota_bound
This could be God having a cup of coffee.
As the clouds condense then more stars are born.
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06/20/2020 4:12:52 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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