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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Along the Taurus Molecular Cloud
NASA ^
| 23 Nov, 2023
| Image Credit & Copyright: Yuexiao Shen, Joe Hua
Posted on 11/23/2023 1:14:20 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: The cosmic brush of star formation composed this interstellar canvas of emission, dust, and dark nebulae. A 5 degree wide telescopic mosaic, it frames a region found north of bright star Aldebaran on the sky, at an inner wall of the local bubble along the Taurus molecular cloud. At lower left, emission cataloged as Sh2-239 shows signs of embedded young stellar objects. The region's Herbig-Haro objects, nebulosities associated with newly born stars, are marked by tell-tale reddish jets of shocked hydrogen gas. Above and right T Tauri, the prototype of the class of T Tauri variable stars, is next to a yellowish nebula historically known as Hind's Variable Nebula (NGC 1555). T Tauri stars are now generally recognized as young, less than a few million years old, sun-like stars still in the early stages of formation.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; nasa
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posted on
11/23/2023 1:14:38 PM PST
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MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Pinging the APOD list.
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posted on
11/23/2023 1:15:10 PM PST
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MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
Just look sat that pollution....
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posted on
11/23/2023 1:28:46 PM PST
by
doorgunner69
(When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
To: MtnClimber
Ever wonder why God made so many stars? Would the universe function just the same with fewer? They sure are beautiful.
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posted on
11/23/2023 2:30:00 PM PST
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No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: Flaming Conservative
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posted on
11/23/2023 2:30:12 PM PST
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: Flaming Conservative
Probably to fill up all that empty space. Most of the universe is empty regions where you would not see a single star in the sky. Even the most power telescopes would only see dim, distant galaxies. The crowded areas are only at the very edges of these voids, where we happen to live. This gives the universe as a whole a spiderweb-like appearance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_Void
To: Flaming Conservative
Ever wonder why God made so many stars? Would the universe function just the same with fewer? They sure are beautiful. And not just the hundreds of billions of stars (and their orbiting planets) in our own galaxy, but hundreds of billions of other galaxies in God's universe. All spread out over infinite space. The universe is truly inspiring and amazing. And as you say, beautiful.
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posted on
11/23/2023 4:50:08 PM PST
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ETCM
(“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
To: ETCM
Yes. Psalm 147:4 “He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.”
To: MtnClimber
Looks like celestial diarrhea.
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posted on
11/23/2023 7:09:58 PM PST
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AlaskaErik
(There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
To: MtnClimber
This reminds me of Hillary Clinton’s homemade spaghetti sauce.
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posted on
11/23/2023 7:15:57 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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posted on
11/23/2023 8:37:26 PM PST
by
JustaTech
(My mind is the weapon. Everything else is tools.)
To: MtnClimber
In lower left. It looks like a cat face.
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posted on
11/23/2023 11:05:13 PM PST
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minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
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posted on
11/24/2023 9:47:03 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: MtnClimber
When I click on your “NASA” link above it takes me to some other photo, not to the image in Post # 2. This has been happening for a few weeks and thought that it would pass but it keeps happening.
To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
I see what you are talking about. They recently changed how they are doing their IP addresses. The IP for yesterday’s APOD brings up today’s page. I will have to post from the Archives page to get the link to work properly after a day goes by.
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posted on
11/25/2023 4:09:22 AM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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