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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Crew-7 Nebula
NASA ^ | 31 Aug, 2023 | Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Seeley

Posted on 08/31/2023 1:14:58 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Not the James Webb Space Telescope's latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 26. The snapshot was taken about 2 minutes after the launch of of a Falcon 9 rocket on the SpaceX Crew-7 mission, the seventh commercial crew rotation mission for the International Space Station. It captures drifting plumes and exhaust from the separated first and second stage illuminated against the still dark skies. Near the center of the image, within the ragged blueish ring, are two bright points of light. The lower one is the second stage of the rocket carrying 4 humans to space in a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The bright point above is the Falcon 9 first stage booster orienting itself for the trip back to Landing Zone-1 at Cape Canaveral, planet Earth.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 08/31/2023 1:14:58 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 08/31/2023 1:15:13 PM PDT 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; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 08/31/2023 1:15:54 PM PDT 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 King Kong reading newspaper........................


4 posted on 08/31/2023 1:17:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Astonishing image.


5 posted on 08/31/2023 1:19:16 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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I was thinking an orangutan.


6 posted on 08/31/2023 1:26:12 PM PDT by DannyTN
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I think it looks more like Dr. Zaius reading a bedtime story to a very young and sleepy Cornelius.


7 posted on 08/31/2023 1:35:19 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
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An Eskimo mother holding several babies.


8 posted on 08/31/2023 1:54:08 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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Wow, I see a face in that image.


9 posted on 08/31/2023 4:27:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Suceed, Well So Much For Skydiving ~)
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Thanks! An interesting and complex picture!

Pareidolia; I do not know how to resolve the various images here! Yes, something like an eskimo with a newborn sitting on the back of a grotesque (Bottom left) african carving face turning to look at the eskimo, paw extended, another blue smoke gnome face to its left. A rabbit running out of the shadow bottom right.

The eskimo mother (?) face....reminded of the Dylan Song "Visions of Johanna": "Ghosts of electricity/howl in the bones of her face". "If you stare too long into the abyss, etc...." I see some more but its time to move on!

10 posted on 08/31/2023 6:36:18 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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I thought of Jabba the Hutt.


11 posted on 08/31/2023 9:07:43 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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