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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The Witch Head Nebula
NASA ^
| October 30, 2015
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 10/31/2015 1:13:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble .... maybe Macbeth should have consulted the Witch Head Nebula. A frighteningly shaped reflection nebula, this cosmic crone is about 800 light-years away though. Its malevolent visage seems to glare toward nearby bright star Rigel in Orion, just off the right edge of this frame. More formally known as IC 2118, the interstellar cloud of dust and gas is nearly 70 light-years across, its dust grains reflecting Rigel's starlight. In this composite portrait, the nebula's color is caused not only by the star's intense bluish light but because the dust grains scatter blue light more efficiently than red. The same physical process causes Earth's daytime sky to appear blue, although the scatterers in planet Earth's atmosphere are molecules of nitrogen and oxygen.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; ic2118; nebula; science; surrenderdorothy; witchheadnebula
[Credit and Copyright: Jeff Signorelli]
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posted on
10/31/2015 1:13:06 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
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posted on
10/31/2015 1:14:09 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
Speaking of a witch head...
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posted on
10/31/2015 1:16:22 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
To: SunkenCiv
Here's another view of it using a special filter...
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posted on
10/31/2015 1:17:05 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: SunkenCiv
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The Witch Head Nebula
Yup, I see it....even in daylight...
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posted on
10/31/2015 1:17:27 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(A proud CRUZader.)
To: PROCON
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posted on
10/31/2015 1:21:59 PM PDT
by
snooter55
(People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
To: SunkenCiv
A spitting image of Herself!
“Actually, I had very little contact with our
Ambassador to the Witche’s Head Nebula”.
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posted on
10/31/2015 1:22:52 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
Her army of flying monkeys could have been deployed, but she ordered them to stand down.
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posted on
10/31/2015 1:28:40 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/31/2015 1:43:47 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/31/2015 2:05:37 PM PDT
by
rey
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/31/2015 5:38:57 PM PDT
by
353FMG
To: DannyTN
[singing] it’s the Endora the world as we know it...
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posted on
10/31/2015 9:06:39 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Slyfox
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posted on
10/31/2015 9:09:05 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: PROCON; rey; 353FMG
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posted on
10/31/2015 9:09:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/01/2015 5:12:44 AM PST
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DannyTN
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/01/2015 5:14:02 AM PST
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DannyTN
To: DannyTN
Endora, one of the few lifelong Republicans and devout Christians in Hollyweird.
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posted on
11/01/2015 5:45:29 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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