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Astronomy Picture of the Day - WR32 and Interstellar Clouds in Carina
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 8 Feb, 2021 | Image Credit & Copyright: Ariel Cappelletti

Posted on 02/08/2021 3:45:08 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: Stars can be like artists. With interstellar gas as a canvas, a massive and tumultuous Wolf-Rayet star has created the picturesque ruffled half-circular filaments called WR32, on the image left. Additionally, the winds and radiation from a small cluster of stars, NGC 3324, have sculpted a 35 light year cavity on the upper right, with its right side appearing as a recognizable face in profile. This region's popular name is the Gabriela Mistral Nebula for the famous Chilean poet. Together, these interstellar clouds lie about 8,000 light-years away in the Great Carina Nebula, a complex stellar neighborhood harboring numerous clouds of gas and dust rich with imagination inspiring shapes. The featured telescopic view captures these nebulae's characteristic emission from ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms mapped to the red, green, and blue hues of the popular Hubble Palette.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 02/08/2021 3:45:08 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 02/08/2021 3:45:35 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; America_Right; Art in Idaho; AZ .44 MAG; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

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Today's post has a cat that blends in very well with it's background and is hard to find. The cat is at one of the hot links at the source explanation.
3 posted on 02/08/2021 3:46:08 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Looks like a nice big lion head on the left.


4 posted on 02/08/2021 3:50:17 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi )
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I see a man’s face with lots of hair and a beard.


5 posted on 02/08/2021 4:01:48 PM PST by ryderann
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I see a left-handed pitcher about to release a curve ball.


6 posted on 02/08/2021 4:04:51 PM PST by PTBAA
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Maybe it's one of the Lion Men from Flash Gordon.
7 posted on 02/08/2021 4:06:03 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi )
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Yeah, ruffly speaking.


8 posted on 02/08/2021 4:10:58 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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I see cat ears in the upper right-hand corner, but its body looks extremely bloated. Must be a heck of a hairball. :-)


9 posted on 02/08/2021 4:13:26 PM PST by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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Looks like Joe Biden scratching his head because someone asked him what the main ingredient is in an egg salad sammich.


10 posted on 02/08/2021 4:21:40 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancerโ€)
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Hi.

I’m thinking to name this wonderful painting, “When G-d Farts.”

Kimche and bear will do that to you.

8^)

5.56mm


11 posted on 02/08/2021 4:27:32 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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This is further Proof that we live in a Young Universe and not billions of years old.
Gas dissipates over time and does not linger around for billions of years.
The Creator of the Heavens and the Earth has made beautiful wonders throughout our Universe.


12 posted on 02/08/2021 5:02:32 PM PST by Pez149 (Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
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Wow!

Mr. blue Moon Pearl is eclipsing Tortoise cat’s head! There are one or more astronauts under the cat’s chin watching in the back ground. You can see him in a suit with his helmet? Odd looking sucker!

(Mtn Climber thanks for posting! Are you a psychologist by chance? Are we being analysed? :)

The explanation....be careful of choosing foyer marble that matches your cat’s color!!


13 posted on 02/08/2021 5:33:38 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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(Mtn Climber thanks for posting! Are you a psychologist by chance? Are we being analysed? :)

No, I am not a psychologist. But, if you want to send me $500 I can give you some really bad advice.

14 posted on 02/08/2021 6:21:08 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Alas, don’t have a spare $500.
But I could pay you with some really questionable stock tips. :)

(Would my family stop talking to me afterwards??)


15 posted on 02/08/2021 6:36:29 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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I see a cheeseburger...


16 posted on 02/08/2021 8:44:50 PM PST by null and void (We're the MSM, we decide what news you can see, and what you can not see, but don't call us Not Sees)
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Looks like a hole in Space, with Heaven, the aqua-blue part, on the other side...............


17 posted on 02/09/2021 5:24:19 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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