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Astronomy Picture of the Day - LDN 43: The Cosmic Bat Nebula
NASA ^
| 27 Oct, 2024
| Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby; Text: Michelle Thaller (NASA's GSFC)
Posted on 10/27/2024 12:59:00 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What is the most spook-tacular nebula in the galaxy? One contender is LDN 43, which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. Located about 1400 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light not only from background stars, but from wisps of gas lit up by the nearby reflection nebula LBN 7. Far from being a harbinger of death, this 12-light year-long filament of gas and dust is actually a stellar nursery. Glowing with eerie light, the bat is lit up from inside by dense gaseous knots that have just formed young stars.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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posted on
10/27/2024 12:59:16 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list
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posted on
10/27/2024 1:00:03 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Glad they named it after Hillary
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posted on
10/27/2024 1:16:54 PM PDT
by
freebilly
To: MtnClimber
So close I keep thinking photoshop. Probably not, but, wow.
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
10/27/2024 1:40:33 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
To: MtnClimber
Bruce Wayne has tweeted that his great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson is looking forward to inheriting the latest Bat Cave invention.
To: Ronaldus Magnus III
Sounds a bit like my 5,000 year project...
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posted on
10/27/2024 1:47:11 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government won't protect the vote, the border, the citizens, then why have that government?)
To: MtnClimber
“the constellation Ophiuchus”
The snake handler? And now he has a pet bat???
This just gets better and better, doesn’t it?
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posted on
10/27/2024 1:57:26 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government won't protect the vote, the border, the citizens, then why have that government?)
To: Ronaldus Magnus III
Cosmic Bat Nebula? Oops! I thought he said Comic Bat Nebula. My bad.
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posted on
10/27/2024 1:58:03 PM PDT
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Governor Dinwiddie
(O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
To: MtnClimber
Awesome and just in time for Halloween.
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Nazgul have evolved . . .
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posted on
10/27/2024 2:22:32 PM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
10/27/2024 2:25:12 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Governor Dinwiddie
It sure does look like him!
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posted on
10/27/2024 3:10:01 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: DannyTN
Funny, for the longest time every sight of that looked like buck teeth and an underbite.
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posted on
10/27/2024 3:54:18 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
To: DannyTN
A bat that just ate a double cheeseburger.
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posted on
10/27/2024 5:41:50 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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posted on
10/27/2024 6:31:03 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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