Posted on 10/07/2020 3:38:48 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: A very faint but very large squid-like nebula is visible in planet Earth's sky -- but inside a still larger bat. The Giant Squid Nebula cataloged as Ou4, and Sh2-129 also known as the Flying Bat Nebula, are both caught in this cosmic scene toward the royal royal constellation Cepheus. Composed with 55 hours of narrowband image data, the telescopic field of view is 3 degrees or 6 Full Moons across. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's alluring bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue-green emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently completely surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, a more recent investigation suggests Ou4 really does lie within Sh2-129 some 2,300 light-years away. Consistent with that scenario, Ou4 would represent a spectacular outflow driven by HR8119, a triple system of hot, massive stars seen near the center of the nebula. The truly giant Squid Nebula would physically be nearly 50 light-years across.
(Excerpt) Read more at apod.nasa.gov ...
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Pinging the APOD list.
Today’s post also has a total of five animals at the link explanation.
Space porn! Space porn! Space porn!
“Alluring bipolar shape”
NASA’s going for bigger ratings, I guess.
The heavens are declaring the glory of God, and their expanse shows the work of his hands. Psalm 19:1 (NIV)
Come to think of it, that could also be construed as something slightly obscene ... :-)
Yeaaaaaaaahhhhh... it IS kinda astronimacally phallic, isn’t it????
Apparently, space has a hard-on....
You see it too?
You mean the naked woman?
Yes, I see her.
Pretty easy to do. I'm having a glass of water. No one is in the room, and I see her in the ice, so it's not a reflection.
Yeah, a squid and a bat. OK. I guess that’s how you get this pic past the censors.
I’m worried that you might be drinking too much water.
Try mixing it with some bourbon.....for medicinal purposes.
Its an cosmic electric blue shaggy mane mushroom!
Well....something like that.
Well now we know where the Red Chinese (notice the background color) Wuhan Bat virus came from - OUTER SPACE, not Outer Mongolia.
Oh the horror of it all. “Commie Bats in Space”!!!
a baguette
Again.... that’s a Terrestrial Hard-On....
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