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Is this maybe the dark material found in the Trifid Nebula?

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979Ap&SS..65...83W

How can we be sure? What is the cause? Is this the fodder that creates stars? :?

Orin

Oh Yeah; I had forgotten about him. I liked the old Star Trek serial. I wish they had some good stuff on TV today. :shock:

[quote="orin stepanek"]You mean the Lazarus project?[/quote]
No, actually I mean [b]this Lazarus[/b] (the guy on the left):

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alternative_Factor][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/STAltFactor.jpg[/img][/url]

[quote="[url]http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/Trifid_Nebula.html[/url]"]The [b]Trifid Nebula[/b] appears in the Star Trek original series episode "The Alternative Factor". As the character Lazarus jumps between this universe and another, anti-universe, the [b]Trifid[/b] is portrayed as if it were the portal between the two.[/quote]
In the end, antimatter Lazarus traps his insane regular-matter twin to wrestle him for eternity in the corridor joining the two universes and thereby prevent him from causing what Spock refers to as "annihilation, Jim - total, complete, absolute annihilation". Everyone on the bridge of the Enterprise is happy that both universes have been saved from matter-antimatter annihilation ... leaving Kirk to ask, "But what of Lazarus?" Then they play the theme song and roll the credits.

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On a serious note, I don't know why the dust lanes do what they do.

[quote="apodman"]In this photo, the dust lanes seem to divide the red nebula behind it into four sections, not three. They look like a frog jumping in our direction. But what of [url=http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/Trifid_Nebula.html]Lazarus[/url]?[/quote]

You mean the Lazarus project?

And So why does the dark material behave in this manner. Looks like it is stretching; also clumping together. Or is it contracting; maybe forming stars?

Orin

In this photo, the dust lanes seem to divide the red nebula behind it into four sections, not three. They look like a frog jumping in our direction. But what of [url=http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/Trifid_Nebula.html]Lazarus[/url]?

[img]http://j3000.com/x/apod/trifid_frog.gif[/img]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090530.html

There seems to be something going on with the dark dust lanes. They look like ropes or like a web crossing over the nebula. There must be some strong attraction of the dark dust particles to cause this phenomena I would think! :?
A beautiful picture otherwise. 8)

Orin