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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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| 7/10/09
| Emanuele Colognato & Jim Wood (Backyard Skies)
Posted on 07/10/2009 6:50:48 AM PDT by sig226
The Pillars of Eagle Castle
Credit & Copyright: Emanuele Colognato & Jim Wood (Backyard Skies)
Explanation: What lights up this castle of star formation? The familiar Eagle Nebula glows bright in many colors at once. The above image is a composite of three of these glowing gas colors. Pillars of dark dust nicely outline some of the denser towers of star formation. Energetic light from young massive stars causes the gas to glow and effectively boils away part of the dust and gas from its birth pillar. Many of these stars will explode after several million years, returning most of their elements back to the nebula which formed them. This process is forming an open cluster of stars known as M16.
TOPICS: Astronomy Picture of the Day; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: apod; lookslikepuke
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posted on
07/10/2009 6:50:48 AM PDT
by
sig226
To: fnord; Number57; KevinDavis; rdb3; MNJohnnie; RightWhale; proudofthesouth; hattend; ...
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posted on
07/10/2009 6:51:19 AM PDT
by
sig226
(Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
To: sig226
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posted on
07/10/2009 7:00:18 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: sig226
Wow! I see dragons and angels and warriors and lizards...in a battle of amazing power against a backdrop so full of slendor it is breathtaking!
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posted on
07/10/2009 7:01:36 AM PDT
by
Republic
( Uhbama has sleezed his way through life.)
To: sig226
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posted on
07/10/2009 7:06:11 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: sig226
From what I understand, the structures in this image are several light-years or more in length, IOW, approx. twice the distance between Sol and the next stellar system.
A grandeur far beyond normal human experience.
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posted on
07/10/2009 7:08:21 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: Joe Brower
“In the begining, God created the Heavens and the Earth”
To: sig226
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posted on
07/10/2009 7:29:16 AM PDT
by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
To: sig226
“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
-Carl Sagan
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posted on
07/10/2009 7:31:03 AM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: sig226
One of my favorite pics (and region of space)
My mouth always drops open when I come upon a pic of the Eagle Nebula
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posted on
07/10/2009 9:28:06 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Sarah Palin has run a fishing business, a city, and a state. All Obama has done is run his mouth.)
To: JoeProBono
Looks like an alien (from the movie of the same name)
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posted on
07/10/2009 9:29:24 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Sarah Palin has run a fishing business, a city, and a state. All Obama has done is run his mouth.)
To: hattend
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posted on
07/10/2009 9:31:53 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono; hattend
How can anyone look upon these spectacular images from space and not believe in God! And to know that God who created the Universe, created us. Each time I look at a detailed anatomical image, I am awestruck at the minute and intricate structures that form our human body.
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posted on
07/10/2009 9:50:22 AM PDT
by
NYer
("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"- Benedict XVI)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/10/2009 9:53:14 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 171 of our national holiday from reality.)
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