Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Dark Seahorse of Cepheus

NASA ^ | 19 Sep, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Davide Broise

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: Spanning light-years, this suggestive shape known as the Seahorse Nebula floats in silhouette against a rich, luminous background of stars. Seen toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus, the dusty, dark nebula is part of a Milky Way molecular cloud some 1,200 light-years distant. It is also listed as Barnard 150 (B150), one of 182 dark markings of the sky cataloged in the early 20th century by astronomer E. E. Barnard. Packs of low mass stars are forming within, but their collapsing cores are only visible at long infrared wavelengths. Still, the colorful Milky Way stars of Cepheus add to this stunning galactic skyscape.

[MtnClimber]

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[MtnClimber]

[MtnClimber]

Pinging the APOD list

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[xoxox]

Anyone hear about the election asteroid?

[Jamestown1630]

This one actually looks like its name.

[Telepathic Intruder]

How so?

[telescope115]

My God, it’s full of stars…

[Jamestown1630]

I can see that, toward the top.

God paints abstractly...

[ComputerGuy]

I would hate to have to count the individual stars in that pic.

[Jamestown1630]

Whenever I hear that, for some reason I think of Dom Pérignon's quote:

“Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!”

[Larry Lucido]

Horse Head Nebula.

[Waverunner]

five thousand nine hundred and eighty two.

[ComputerGuy]

You may very well be right.

[telescope115]

GOOD ONE!😀🥂🤩

[Bob434]

I expect a full report on the number of stars in the morning lol

[Jamestown1630]

Well, I like drinking; but not as much as I love beautiful language and poetry -

I’m also fond of Sarah Williams’ poem, ‘The Old Astronomer to His Pupil” q.v.:

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night” 

[ComputerGuy]

It’s morning, and here’s your answer: a very table shiite load.

[telescope115]

That is beautiful, thank you for sharing that! I’m going to look that poem up for myself!👍🔭

[Bob434]

Lol, close enough!

[telescope115]

In return, I offer you this excerpt from Les Miserables,

Stars

In your multitudes

Scarce to be counted

Filling the darkness

With order and light

You are the sentinels

Silent and sure

Keeping watch in the night

Keeping watch in the night

You know your place in the sky

You hold your course and your aim

And each in your season

Returns and returns

And is always the same

And if you fall as Lucifer fell

You fall in flame!

Javert, from Les Miserables It absolutely blew me away the first time I heard this.