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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Tulip Nebula and Black Hole Cygnus X-1
NASA ^
| 28 Aug, 2024
| Image Credit & Copyright: Anirudh Shastry
Posted on 08/28/2024 1:05:29 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: When can you see a black hole, a tulip, and a swan all at once? At night -- if the timing is right, and if your telescope is pointed in the right direction. The complex and beautiful Tulip Nebula blossoms about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. Ultraviolet radiation from young energetic stars at the edge of the Cygnus OB3 association, including O star HDE 227018, ionizes the atoms and powers the emission from the Tulip Nebula. Stewart Sharpless cataloged this nearly 70 light-years across reddish glowing cloud of interstellar gas and dust in 1959, as Sh2-101. Also in the featured field of view is the black hole Cygnus X-1, which to be a microquasar because it is one of strongest X-ray sources in planet Earth's sky. Blasted by powerful jets from a lurking black hole, its fainter bluish curved shock front is only faintly visible beyond the cosmic Tulip's petals, near the right side of the frame.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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08/28/2024 1:05:58 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list
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posted on
08/28/2024 1:06:54 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
08/28/2024 1:22:16 PM PDT
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Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: MtnClimber
I, for one, refuse to make Uranus crack-- er, jokes.
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posted on
08/28/2024 1:34:03 PM PDT
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xoxox
To: MtnClimber
Looks like Winnie The Pooh with a blue egg by his nose.
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posted on
08/28/2024 1:37:17 PM PDT
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
To: xoxox
Too late... you just did...
To: MtnClimber
Tulip Nebula sounds like a part time Belly Dancer/Pole Artist.
To: 21twelve
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posted on
08/28/2024 2:11:43 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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08/28/2024 2:29:17 PM PDT
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mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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posted on
08/28/2024 2:34:41 PM PDT
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skinny old man
(Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
To: MtnClimber
If we were able to see the night sky as seen in astrophotos, it would almost look like a kaleidoscope of color.
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posted on
08/28/2024 2:54:11 PM PDT
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telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: Magnum44
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posted on
08/28/2024 3:37:02 PM PDT
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wally_bert
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To: mabarker1; 21twelve
"Six stars of the Northern Cross,
In mourning for their sister's loss,
With a final flash of glory,
Nevermore to grace the night."
- Neal Peart
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08/28/2024 5:01:29 PM PDT
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MikelTackNailer
(God doesn't make mistakes. People who won't listen to Him do.)
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