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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Stars and Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 19 Apr, 2022
| Image Credit & Copyright: Stefan Steve Bemmerl
Posted on 04/19/2022 2:09:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: The eggs from this gigantic chicken may form into stars. The featured emission nebula, shown in scientifically assigned colors, is cataloged as IC 2944 but known as the Running Chicken Nebula for the shape of its greater appearance. Seen toward the bottom of the image are small, dark molecular clouds rich in obscuring cosmic dust. Called Thackeray's Globules for their discoverer, these "eggs" are potential sites for the gravitational condensation of new stars, although their fates are uncertain as they are also being rapidly eroded away by the intense radiation from nearby young stars. Together with patchy glowing gas and complex regions of reflecting dust, these massive and energetic stars form the open cluster Collinder 249. This gorgeous skyscape spans about 60 light-years at the nebula's estimated 6,500 light-year distance.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
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04/19/2022 2:09:39 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:10:13 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
The running chicken nebula?
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:17:55 PM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(I pledge allegiance to Hedy Lamarr)
To: MtnClimber
Is that chicken running with it’s head cut off?
I think it is!
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:27:55 PM PDT
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DannyTN
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:28:23 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
To: MtnClimber
In the chicken’s defense, it does look like the sky is falling in the upper left hand corner, or their is a giant orange black death nebula, or soul eater or the Nothing, or just something bad and probably evil.
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:29:49 PM PDT
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DannyTN
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:35:38 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
To: DannyTN
Was the chicken crossing the road? Why was the road there? Was it part of a bridge to nowhere? Should we charge the chicken a toll? What came first, the chicken or the egg or the road for the chicken to cross? Answer me that DannyTN!
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:36:06 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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I dream of a day when a chicken can cross the road
without having it’s motives questioned...
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:38:51 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:39:13 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: tet68
Maybe it is not a chicken at all. Maybe it is a swallow.
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:47:49 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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Was the chicken crossing the road? Why was the road there? Was it part of a bridge to nowhere? Should we charge the chicken a toll? What came first, the chicken or the egg or the road for the chicken to cross? Answer me that DannyTN!
Yes, the chicken was crossing the road, that’s what chickens do.
The road was there so the chicken could cross it. That’s the purpose of roads.
Charge a toll, is it an African or English Chicken?
Definitely the Chicken came first. There would be no need for the road without the chicken. If the egg had come first, it would have died for lack of nurturing.
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:50:41 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: DannyTN; tet68; MtnClimber
Why did the chicken cross the border?
To avoid the draft.
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:52:40 PM PDT
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Publius
(It wasn't easy being a young conservative. It's easier being an old conservative.)
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:56:57 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: Publius
Why did the chicken cross the border? To avoid the draft.Are you sure there wasn't free chicken feed on the other side?
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:57:05 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: Publius; MtnClimber
Or possibly a free cheeseburger?
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posted on
04/19/2022 2:59:52 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
“...shown in scientifically assigned colors...”
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posted on
04/19/2022 3:06:09 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: Repeal The 17th
Reminds me, I need to clean the toilet. With that blue stuff.
To: MtnClimber
Maybe it is not a chicken at all. Maybe it is a swallow. Wot? Wot do you mean, African swallow or European swallow?
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posted on
04/19/2022 3:38:55 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Replace No Bail with Mo' Jail. The certainty, not the possibility, of punishment keeps 'em in line.)
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