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[quote="Anthony Barreiro"][quote="APOD Robot"] In this beautiful [url=http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n2170.shtml]celestial still life[/url] composed with a cosmic brush, ...[/quote]
As I asked the last time this beautiful and interesting image was posted as an apod, whose hand is holding the brush? who composed this particular still life?[/quote]
According to your link, Adam Block took the picture. He has the copyright.

[quote="Anthony Barreiro"][quote="APOD Robot"] In this beautiful [url=http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n2170.shtml]celestial still life[/url] composed with a cosmic brush, ...[/quote]
As I asked the last time this beautiful and interesting image was posted as an apod, whose hand is holding the brush? who composed this particular still life?[/quote]

That which can only be feebly described through hypothetical and theoretical physics equations, otherwise known as nature.

[quote="APOD Robot"] In this beautiful [url=http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n2170.shtml]celestial still life[/url] composed with a cosmic brush, ...[/quote]
As I asked the last time this beautiful and interesting image was posted as an apod, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism]whose hand[/url] is holding the brush? Who composed, or is composing, this particular still life?

[quote="Case"][quote="DavidLeodis"]I assume that the red emission nebula has a name, so I would be grateful if someone could please tell me as I have not been readily able to find out.[/quote]
Robert Gendler calls it [i]the Core of the Mon R2 association.[/i] http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC2170text.html[/quote]

Thanks for that Case, which is appreciated. :)

[quote="DavidLeodis"]I assume that the red emission nebula has a name, so I would be grateful if someone could please tell me as I have not been readily able to find out.[/quote]
Robert Gendler calls it [i]the Core of the Mon R2 association.[/i] http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC2170text.html

I assume that the red emission nebula has a name, so I would be grateful if someone could please tell me as I have not been readily able to find out.

speaking of brooms, I am beginning not to like those small CFL spiral lights. I thought I was doing the Earth some good. I am gonna go LED's .

Beautiful!!!!!

Someone had a bad hair day!

Wonderful portrait. There's a lot going on in there, it's only a still-life on canvas. Kudos to the artist!

This image is a group de forms and colors
as a magic tapestry

The broom is over in the Witch's Head nebula. :wink:

Good juxtaposition between Reflection and Emission Nebula....some one get a broom!

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In awe :shock: by the beauty! :D :wink:

No doubt those stars will eventually erode it....making another awesome "still life" yet again! We can only hope.... :D

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Sci-Fi B Movie...."Cosmic Shadowman VS Nebulus: The Thing from Beyond Space"...the plot is thin, but the action is sometimes good. Great Cinematography. A fairly good Human Story line, with a good climactic ending, but suffers from a slow, dragging middle and several plot lines that seem to go nowhere, and bad English dubbing....3 of 5 stars.....1 and a half thumbs up.... :D

What a great shot. Great Work, Adam Block!!!

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Yeah, ya got to see the orange eyed blue headed dust monster at work. :lol2:

WOW, glad I stayed up to admire this sight

[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130707.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_130707.jpg[/img] [size=150]NGC 2170: Still Life with Reflecting Dust[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] In this beautiful [url=http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n2170.shtml]celestial still life[/url] composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula [url=http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC2170]NGC 2170[/url] shines at the upper left. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0608/ngc2170_seip_f56lbl.jpg]is joined[/url] by other bluish [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap041204.html]reflection[/url] nebulae, a compact red [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040629.html]emission[/url] region, and streamers of obscuring dust against a backdrop of stars. 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 pictured here are also commonly found in this setting - a massive, [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101015.html]star-forming molecular cloud[/url] in the constellation of the Unicorn ([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], Mon R2, is impressively close, [url=http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2005A%26A...430..523W]estimated[/url] to be only 2,400 light-years or so away. At that distance, this canvas would be about 15 light-years across.

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