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This is a fhotograph of a beautiful " celestial painting "
Because the Universe is an " artist "

in an irish pub they would say " it is a bloody painting, mate " With one exception.

[i]WHAT[/i] :?: :?: You meen it's [i]knot[/i] spelted -foetoe- :!: :?: Shudda payed mor atension in inglish clas. :yes:

[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="bystander"]It's a [url=http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/80/NGC-2170.html][b]photo[/b][/url].[/quote]
I think you mean [i]foto[/i].[/quote]

Isn't that how you spell it???? :shock: :shock: :shock: [img]http://media.peaceopstraining.org/img/flags/flag_se.png[/img] Me Swedish! [img]http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/smile/1768.gif[/img]

Ann

[quote="bystander"]It's a [url=http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/80/NGC-2170.html][b]photo[/b][/url].[/quote]
I think you mean [i]foto[/i].

It's a [url=http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/80/NGC-2170.html][b]photo[/b][/url].

It is a painting. I don't see any light spikes associated with the brighter stars. Pass me an ice cold one, please.

This is a beautiful photograph but, I take exception that it is a stillife. It's more of a lands-scape. First, it's not a composed arrangement of inanimate objects. Secondly, it's not still. Thirdly, us painters are contrarions.

If it were a painting, it wuld have taken the artist 2 lifetimes.

Beautiful APOD! I kind of expected the Bird of Paradise to fly away! :mrgreen:
I just had to bring the unicorn to the front; he's pretty cute! :D [img2]http://www.forkparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Unicorn-Dog.jpg[/img2]

[quote="Glenriven"]Design us a way to get there! It's on you class of 2016.[/quote]

Invent a faster than light transport and then make a lot of sandwiches.

Most of the examples in the -still life painters- link, seemed to have died[size=50]disappeared[/size], well,,, that's life. :mrgreen:

This is a lovely image, wonderfully colored and chock full of fantastic details. There are actually at least three emission nebulae here, although one is very small (at top, near a blue star there) and one is very large and faint (at far left).

Amazing structure can be seen in the dust, and, as I said, the colors are lovely. On ebright yellow star at far right seems to be surrounded by a retinue of fainter blue stars, as if it was a red supergiant accompanied by unevolved hot stars. But according to the parallaxes of the stars, that is probably not the case.

Anyway, it is a stunning sky vista, made even more beautiful in this image.

Ann

Design us a way to get there! It's on you class of 2016.

Looks like a Tongue sticking out in the middle.....:P

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[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120306.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_120306.jpg[/img] [size=150]NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Is this a painting or a photograph? In this beautiful celestial [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_life]still life[/url] composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2170]NGC 2170[/url] shines near the image center. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070228.html]NGC 2170[/url] is joined by other bluish [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/reflection_nebulae.html]reflection[/url] nebulae, a red [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/emission_nebulae.html]emission[/url] region, many dark [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/dark_nebulae.html]absorption nebulae[/url], and a backdrop of [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080803.html]colorful stars[/url]. Like the common household items [url=http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/still-life/1701-1850.html]still life painters[/url] often choose for their subjects, the clouds of gas, dust, and hot stars [url=http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/80/NGC-2170.html]pictured above[/url] are also commonly found in this setting - a massive, star-forming molecular cloud in the constellation of the [url=http://www.forkparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Unicorn-Dog.jpg]Unicorn[/url] ([url=http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/mon/index.html]Monoceros[/url]). The giant [url=http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Bima/GMC.html]molecular cloud[/url], [url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997AJ....114..198C]Mon R2[/url], is impressively close, [url=http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2005A%26A...430..523W]estimated[/url] to be only 2,400 [url=http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cosmic_distance.html]light-years[/url] or so away. At that distance, this [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL5KZWDe8x8]canvas[/url] would be over 60 light-years across.

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