Posted on 09/25/2022 1:53:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. As powerful starlight whittles away these cool cosmic mountains, the statuesque pillars that remain might be imagined as mythical beasts. Featured here is one of several striking dust pillars of the Eagle Nebula that might be described as a gigantic alien fairy. This fairy, however, is ten light years tall and spews radiation much hotter than common fire. The greater Eagle Nebula, M16, is actually a giant evaporating shell of gas and dust inside of which is a growing cavity filled with a spectacular stellar nursery currently forming an open cluster of stars. This great pillar, which is about 7,000 light years away, will likely evaporate away in about 100,000 years. The featured image is in scientifically re-assigned colors and was taken by the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
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It does kind of look like Mare Pete.
A fairy, you say?
On Monday, Sept. 26 at 7:14 Eastern time NASA will crash a satellite into an asteroid. I think it will be streamed live.
Mission is called DART, they want to see if they can nudge the orbit. A step towards protecting Earth from future asteroid strikes.
They call it DART, my name for it is “The Bruce Willis Mission”.
https://www.space.com/dart-asteroid-impact-crash-what-time
So NASA is sucking up in the muslim-outreach program of 0bama by suicide bombing an asteroid? Must be a Christian asteroid!
Looks like a seahorse with a chicken on its head and the Michelin Man on his neck.
Very Cool!
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