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Astronomy Picture of the Dat - Reflections of the Ghost Nebula
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 26 Oct, 2020
| Image Credit & Copyright: Bogdan Jarzyna
Posted on 10/26/2020 4:05:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Do any shapes seem to jump out at you from this interstellar field of stars and dust? The jeweled expanse, filled with faint, starlight-reflecting clouds, drifts through the night in the royal constellation of Cepheus. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, these ghostly apparitions lurk along the plane of the Milky Way at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away. Over two light-years across and brighter than the other spooky chimeras, VdB 141 or Sh2-136 is also known as the Ghost Nebula, seen at toward the bottom of the featured image. Within the reflection nebula are the telltale signs of dense cores collapsing in the early stages of star formation.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; cepheusflare; ghostnebula; nasa; science; sh2136; vdb141
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:06:14 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; America_Right; Art in Idaho; AZ .44 MAG; ...
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:07:10 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Dat is messed up.
Dat’s a lot of spores.
There’s a fungus among us.
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:09:35 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
It’s in space, so it must be the Space Ghoast nebula...
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:11:18 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: MtnClimber
I don’t see a thing. That’s my official position on the matter.
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:15:14 PM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: ComputerGuy
The bug ghost took a cheeseburger from the little ghost and he won’t give it back. He says “go and trick or treat for another one and get another and some chips for me too”.
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:29:08 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
10/26/2020 4:34:15 PM PDT
by
Adder
("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
To: MtnClimber
Dat is nice.
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:40:04 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: MtnClimber
It’s a ghost...
A G-G-GHOST!?! [ZOOM!]
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:40:38 PM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best SOTU ever!)
To: MtnClimber
No fries. Chips. Chips.
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:40:49 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: MtnClimber
In the middle, I see a couple of people with both arms extended upward.
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:43:40 PM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
To: MtnClimber
Ghost Nebula?!!! Jinky's
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:48:53 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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posted on
10/26/2020 4:54:53 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: MtnClimber
Looks like a ghost With two witches on the Hog head nebula below urging him to fly away! (See its tusks?)
To: SunkenCiv
You misspelled my name!
It's Space Ghost!
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posted on
10/26/2020 6:33:02 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The only thing worse than COVID-19 is Biden-20!)
To: DannyTN; Fungi
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posted on
10/26/2020 6:35:07 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
To: Alas Babylon!
My reading glasses are haunted!
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posted on
10/26/2020 9:31:29 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: MtnClimber
Dat be kool!......................
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posted on
10/27/2020 5:09:00 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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