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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud
NASA ^
| November 30, 2014
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 11/30/2014 6:20:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: It may look like a grazing seahorse, but the dark object toward the image right is actually a pillar of smoky dust about 20 light years long. The curiously-shaped dust structure occurs in our neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud, in a star forming region very near the expansive Tarantula Nebula. The energetic nebula is creating a star cluster, NGC 2074, whose center is visible just off the top of the image in the direction of the neck of the seahorse. The representative color image was taken last year by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in honor of Hubble's 100,000th trip around the Earth. As young stars in the cluster form, their light and winds will slowly erode the dust pillars away over the next million years.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; largemagellaniccloud; magellaniccloud; ngc2074; science; tarantulanebula
[Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)]
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:20:53 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:22:50 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: NewCenturions
I wholeheartedly agree, the big version has a bunch of blank space, alas, but still knocks out the eyes.
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11/30/2014 6:23:34 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Very cool. I used to buy ‘Sky and Telescope’ magazine for those pictures.
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11/30/2014 6:32:16 AM PST
by
real saxophonist
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To: SunkenCiv
Extreme beauty! Wonder if is still same, in this our perceived present ...
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:44:31 AM PST
by
no-to-illegals
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To: SunkenCiv
That’s not a very flattering pose ... Mr Seahorse objects to the usage of unapproved images of himself ... you will be hearing from his ‘lawyers’ soon.
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posted on
11/30/2014 7:21:12 AM PST
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PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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posted on
11/30/2014 8:08:19 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Sorry, it doesn’t look like a seahorse,
it looks like TWO seahorses having sex.
Which is what all constellations look like, sex.
Funny isn’t it.
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11/30/2014 8:12:07 AM PST
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posted on
11/30/2014 8:21:08 AM PST
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RedMDer
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To: tet68
;’) Great, now I’m cueing up “This Flight Tonight”.
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posted on
11/30/2014 8:28:10 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
There used to be a ping list for these daily pictures.
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posted on
11/30/2014 10:00:39 AM PST
by
mowowie
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To: SunkenCiv
Really Nice!
Thankis for posting! ;-)
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11/30/2014 10:58:11 AM PST
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