Starship Asterisk*

Ann wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:53 am

Boomer12k wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:49 pm I find it interesting, and a bit puzzling... there are swirls and round edges everywhere...but near the center..."in the pink"... is a VERY straight line... I assume of ionized gas or something...
When everything else is CURVED... why is that so very straight???
Any answer?

Thanks,

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M43 with straight line and arrow.png

Orion Nebula with straight line and arrow.png

I wish I knew why it is straight. Obviously it has to do with gaseous outflows, feedback, the density of the dust, the relative proportions of gas and dust and different elements, and the onslaught of ultraviolet photons. But what exactly it is that forms this particular straight line, I can't say.

Compare the picture of M43 with the picture of the Orion Nebula and M43. Note the strong straight line in the Orion Nebula. What causes it? Well... gaseous outflows, feedback, the density of the dust, the relative proportions of gas and dust and different elements, and the onslaught of ultraviolet photons?

Note the straight line in M43 in the picture of the Orion Nebula and M43.

Ann

Ann wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:53 am

Boomer12k wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:49 pm I find it interesting, and a bit puzzling... there are swirls and round edges everywhere...but near the center..."in the pink"... is a VERY straight line... I assume of ionized gas or something...
When everything else is CURVED... why is that so very straight???
Any answer?

Thanks,

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M43 with straight line and arrow.png

Orion Nebula with straight line and arrow.png

I assume you mean the straight red line in M43 that I have marked with an arrow.

I wish I knew why it is straight. Obviously it has to do with gaseous outflows, feedback, the density of the dust, the relative proportions of gas and dust and different elements, and the onslaught of ultraviolet photons. But what exactly it is that forms this particular straight line, I can't say.

Compare the picture of M43 with the picture of the Orion Nebula and M43. Note the strong straight line in the Orion Nebula. What causes it? Well... gaseous outflows, feedback, the density of the dust, the relative proportions of gas and dust and different elements, and the onslaught of ultraviolet photons?

Note the straight line in M43 in the picture of the Orion Nebula and M43.

Ann

Jerome68 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 4:02 pm Every time I see this kind of image, I cannot stop thinking about the dimensions... see an entire Galaxy (huge per se), with millions of stars (stars, like our sun), saw so small and so far... I don't know, cannot describe how profound it looks like ... (sorry for being so corny on this comment, but I needed to share it )

Boomer12k wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:49 pm I find it interesting, and a bit puzzling... there are swirls and round edges everywhere...but near the center..."in the pink"... is a VERY straight line... I assume of ionized gas or something...
When everything else is CURVED... why is that so very straight???
Any answer?

Thanks,

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TheZuke! wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:08 pm

Sa Ji Tario wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:27 pm I find a doctor with glasses and a nurse

Glasses of what?

TheZuke! wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:23 pm

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:41 am
Sort of looks like a man's head!

He looks very Klingon to me.

Sa Ji Tario wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:27 pm I find a doctor with glasses and a nurse

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:41 am
Sort of looks like a man's head!

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:41 am

A man's head????

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Sort of looks like a man's head!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Demoiselles_d%27Avignon wrote:

A Young Ladies of Avignon

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó (translated into Spanish: Calle de Aviñón [es]), a street in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none is conventionally feminine. The women appear slightly menacing and are rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. The figure on the left exhibits facial features and dress of Egyptian or southern Asian style. The two adjacent figures are shown in the Iberian style of Picasso's native Spain, while the two on the right are shown with African mask-like features. The racial primitivism evoked in these masks, according to Picasso, moved him to "liberate an utterly original artistic style of compelling, even savage force."