Posted on 05/10/2022 4:02:15 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble. Still, no known cat could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula visible toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius. At 5,500 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula with a red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen atoms. Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula and cataloged as NGC 6334, stars nearly ten times the mass of our Sun have been born there in only the past few million years. Pictured here is a deep field image of the Cat's Paw Nebula in light emitted by hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
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“The Cat’s Paw Nebula” Well since it’s orange, it must be Garfield.
Why do we spend so much money and effort to “explore space”?
What is it that we are hoping to find?
Is it just our curiosity, or what?
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Went to the moon, found dirt and rocks...
Went to Mars, found dirt and rocks...
Abstract knowledge. You never know what is going to be useful a hundred or so years from now. It’s why you’re typing on a computer instead of scrawling pictures on the wall of a cave somewhere.
A Pelosi Nebula?
Actually it is a boxer in baggy shorts.
The lower paw pad, is that a bit of litter box debris?
With the new telescope coming online, we are expecting even more amazing posts.
Exploration and knowledge. The space program over the years has developed some amazing products like memory foam, scratch-resistant lenses, freeze-dried food…
Do you have a microwave? Their engineers had a hand in that technology, too.
What are they working on now? Satellite tech they invented is being used to study our weather patterns and give us better weather forecasts. Also keeping an eye on our fellow Earthlings who do us harm.
Looking outward, they (and others) are keeping an eye on comets and asteroids that could possibly hit us one day. They are exploring ways of diverting those bodies before they can hit us.
There are a lot of good things coming out of the space program, but they seem to be losing direction with all of the politically correct stuff. We could’ve been back to the Moon years ago with an outpost.
I forgot to mention the experimentation with medicines to come up with better medications manufactured in a zero-g environment, and experimentation with manufacturing processes to make products that can’t be made on Earth.
Also experimentation with growing food hydroponically.
I remember when NASA was a lot more focused on getting men into space.
I have no problem with women and minorities being in the space program in any capacity but cut out affirmative action and woke policies.
No, I don’t work for NASA, or did I ever. Space has always fascinated me. I have been an amateur astronomer most of my life.
You can find out a lot more , just type in NASA space program inventions, or something similar.
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Went to all the outer planets and their moons, found dirt and rocks.....................
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