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Very faint but also very large on planet Earth’s sky, a giant Squid Nebula cataloged as Ou4, and Sh2-129 also known as the Flying Bat Nebula, are both caught in this scene toward the royal constellation Cepheus. Composed with a total of 20 hours of broadband and narrowband data, the telescopic field of view is almost 4 degrees or 8 Full Moons across. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula’s alluring bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue-green emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently completely surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, a recent investigation suggests Ou4 really does lie within Sh2-129 some 2,300 light-years away. Consistent with that scenario, Ou4 would represent a spectacular outflow driven by a triple system of hot, massive stars, cataloged as HR8119, seen near the center of the nebula. If so, the truly giant Squid Nebula would physically be nearly 50 light-years across.
Object Names: Squid Nebula/Ou4, Flying Bat Nebula/Sh2-129
Image Type: Astronomical
Credit: Steve Canistra (Starry Wonders)
Time And Space
Ohhhh yo quiero una casa en un árbol como esta!!!!!
Karlskoga
by David Pinzer
Jungle Taxi, Yala, Sri Lanka
via #NASA_APP
Arte en ruedas! Qué tal eh?
This dance is to the death. Along the way, as these two large galaxies duel, a cosmic bridge of stars, gas, and dust currently stretches over 75,000 light-years and joins them. The bridge itself is strong evidence that these two immense star systems have passed close to each other and experienced violent tides induced by mutual gravity. As further evidence, the face-on spiral galaxy on the right, also known as NGC 3808A, exhibits many young blue star clusters produced in a burst of star formation. The twisted edge-on spiral on the left (NGC 3808B) seems to be wrapped in the material bridging the galaxies and surrounded by a curious polar ring. Together, the system is known as Arp 87 and morphologically classified, technically, as peculiar. While such interactions are drawn out over billions of years, repeated close passages should ultimately result in the death of one galaxy in the sense that only one galaxy will eventually result. Although this scenario does look peculiar, galactic mergers are thought to be common, with Arp 87 representing a stage in this inevitable process. The Arp 87 pair are about 300 million light-years distant toward the constellation Leo. The prominent edge-on spiral at the far left appears to be a more distant background galaxy and not involved in the on-going merger.
Object Names: Arp 87
Image Type: Astronomical
Credit: NASA, ESA, HST
Time And Space
TODAY IN HISTORY: The rings of Saturn, August 17, 1981, in an enhanced view from the Voyager 2 space probe, assembled from clear, orange and ultraviolet frames taken at a distance of 8.9 million km (5.5 million miles). (NASA)
This was and still is the most disgracefull act made by human race.
Boeing B-29 superfortress bomber “Enola Gay” named for Enola gay tibbets, the mother of the pilot Colonel paul tibbets. On the 6th of august 1945 Enola Gay became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb, codenamed little boy on the city of Hiroshima, japan.
“My god, what have we done”
- Cpt Robert Lewis, co pilot of Enola gay
Un hermoso castillo en Molina, data del s. XVII con remodelaciones en el XIX y XX. Quien lo reconstruyó como el original, se quemó parcialmente en 1896, fué Hubert von Tiele-Winckler hijo.
Moszna Castle, Poland
Kyle Of Lochalsh, Highland, United Kingdom