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[quote="ThePiper"][quote="Boomer12k"]...there is a NEARLY Elephant head with raised trunk at the bottom middle...[/quote]

Another elephant is over - and a bit right of it. His trunk points exactly to the head of the colleague. They have a chat.
The evidence: The cosmos is full of elephants... :lol2:

Thanks, Ivan![/quote]

Perhaps the elephants are all making trunk calls! Sorry for that but someone was surely bound to be at least thinking it. :wink:

It's a superb image. Ivan Eder's website has lots of equally excellent astrophotography images. :D

[quote="Boomer12k"]...there is a NEARLY Elephant head with raised trunk at the bottom middle...[/quote]

Another elephant is over - and a bit right of it. His trunk points exactly to the head of the colleague. They have a chat.
The evidence: The cosmos is full of elephants... :lol2:

Thanks, Ivan!

Awesome....my pareidolia is kicking in...there is a NEARLY Elephant head with raised trunk at the bottom middle...the darker part being the raised trunk. And a close PEACOCK in the middle right side. Long neck rising up...just left of the pinkish stars...but then it is probably just me.... :lol2:

Really nice image. Always amazes me..."OXYGEN in blue..." Oxygen I associate with Bacteria growth in Stromatolites, in Earth's ancient oceans. To have Oxygen in space as a seemingly abundant element always seems odd...but then....Comets and Ort Clouds, and Moons have ICE....Hydrogen and Oxygen...so I guess I should get over my surprise.... :shock:
The chance for "water worlds" seems very likely to me....

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