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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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1 posted on 08/28/2024 1:05:29 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 08/28/2024 1:05:58 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list

πŸͺ 🌟 🌌 πŸ”


3 posted on 08/28/2024 1:06:54 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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4 posted on 08/28/2024 1:22:16 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: MtnClimber
I, for one, refuse to make Uranus crack-- er, jokes.
5 posted on 08/28/2024 1:34:03 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: MtnClimber

Looks like Winnie The Pooh with a blue egg by his nose.


6 posted on 08/28/2024 1:37:17 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: xoxox

Too late... you just did...


7 posted on 08/28/2024 1:38:17 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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To: MtnClimber

Tulip Nebula sounds like a part time Belly Dancer/Pole Artist.


8 posted on 08/28/2024 2:09:15 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: 21twelve

Ping.


9 posted on 08/28/2024 2:11:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

RUSH- Cignus X1


10 posted on 08/28/2024 2:29:17 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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Great Stuffas always !


11 posted on 08/28/2024 2:34:41 PM PDT by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: MtnClimber

If we were able to see the night sky as seen in astrophotos, it would almost look like a kaleidoscope of color.


12 posted on 08/28/2024 2:54:11 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! πŸ”­)
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To: Magnum44

https://youtu.be/hKYFa9FHEU4?si=F5oe2FUoxCkptAV0


13 posted on 08/28/2024 3:37:02 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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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

14 posted on 08/28/2024 5:01:29 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (God doesn't make mistakes. People who won't listen to Him do.)
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