Starship Asterisk*

The picture caught me on awe. :)

Enchanting picture! :ssmile:

[quote="Russ G"]There is a star forming region in N. America on Earth, Hollywood; (Although this is more closely associated with the California Nebula).

Russ[/quote]
Yes... and those stars behave just as badly as those in space... but sometimes 'blow-up' more often. :yes: :lol2:

There is a star forming region in N. America on Earth, Hollywood; (Although this is more closely associated with the California Nebula).

Russ

The Cygnus Wall seems very dense. Gas, dust and new stars .

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[quote]The North America nebula on the sky can do what the North America continent on Earth cannot -- form stars.[/quote]
A nice analogy to the Pacific Ring of Fire, however.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire.svg/500px-Pacific_Ring_of_Fire.svg.png[/img]

Boy! Sometimes one really has to use imagination to see what the picture is named for, before the ability to take better pictures arrived.

[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130122.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_130122.jpg[/img] [size=150]The Cygnus Wall of Star Formation[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] The [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America_Nebula]North America nebula[/url] on the sky can do what the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America]North America continent[/url] on Earth cannot -- form stars. Specifically, in analogy to the Earth-confined continent, the bright part that appears as [url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/wfbExt/region_cam.html]Central America[/url] and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico]Mexico[/url] is actually a hot bed of gas, dust, and newly formed stars known as the [url=http://panther-observatory.com/gallery/deepsky/doc/NGC7000_cass.htm]Cygnus Wall[/url]. The [url=http://www.astrobin.com/full/21175/?mod=none]above image[/url] shows the star forming wall [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120722.html]lit and eroded[/url] by [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120903.html]bright young stars[/url], and partly hidden by the dark [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030706.html]dust[/url] they have created. The part of the [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090630.html]North America nebula[/url] (NGC 7000) shown spans about 15 [url=http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cosmic_distance.html]light years[/url] and lies about 1,500 light years away toward the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation]constellation[/url] of the Swan ([url=http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/cyg/index.html]Cygnus[/url]).

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