Posted on 03/10/2025 12:11:43 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Could Queen Calafia's mythical island exist in space? Perhaps not, but by chance the outline of this molecular space cloud echoes the outline of the state of California, USA. Our Sun has its home within the Milky Way's Orion Arm, only about 1,000 light-years from the California Nebula. Also known as NGC 1499, the classic emission nebula is around 100 light-years long. On the featured image, the most prominent glow of the California Nebula is the red light characteristic of hydrogen atoms recombining with long lost electrons, stripped away (ionized) by energetic starlight. The star most likely providing the energetic starlight that ionizes much of the nebular gas is the bright, hot, bluish Xi Persei just to the right of the nebula. A regular target for astrophotographers, the California Nebula can be spotted with a wide-field telescope under a dark sky toward the constellation of Perseus, not far from the Pleiades.
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Nice, though it’s missing green for a full rainbow flag.
The blue part should be more concentrated in the SF and LA areas.
Wow.
It looks like an anus in the SF area.
That looks nothing like a Maki roll. Well, maybe a poorly made one.
Disturbing but metaphorically approximate if not accurate.
Looks more like a red dragon roll than a california roll.
Looks more like a red dragon roll than a california roll.
Looks like one of my brother’s worse paintings.
Hunter sold paintings like this for lots of money.
LOL!
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