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[quote=MoonSmith post_id=308419 time=1606406503 user_id=144464]
For someone who just looks at and reads APOD for pleasure and is astronomically challenged, is this a faked image ala April 1st?
Thanks! :)
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It’s a fake that was constructed from real image data. Here is the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090826.html]undoctored nebula[/url].

Kinda spooky lookin

Looks more like the great tick nebula

A day to remember to give thanks even if under your circumstances, you could at least be thankful you were free and able to read today's APOD (as confusing as it was for this astronomical tenderfoot).

Very few astronomical images look UGLY to me. This once look cancerous.

[quote="APOD Robot" post_id=308408 time=1606367153 user_id=128559]
[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201126.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_201126.jpg[/img] [size=150]The Great Turkey Nebula[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Surprisingly reminiscent of The Great Nebula in Orion, The Great Turkey Nebula spans this creative field of view. [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131101.html]Of course[/url] if it were the Orion Nebula it would be our closest large stellar nursery, found at the edge of a large molecular cloud a mere 1,500 light-years away. [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090826.html]Also known as M42[/url], the Orion Nebula is visible to the eye as the middle "star" in the sword of Orion the Hunter, a constellation now rising in planet Earth's [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191122.html]evening skies[/url]. Stellar winds from clusters of newborn stars scattered throughout [url=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/1692-ssc2006-21a1-Multiwavelength-Orion-Nebula]the Orion Nebula[/url] sculpt its ridges and cavities seen in familiar in telescopic images. Similar in size to the Orion Nebula, this Great Turkey Nebula was imagined to be about 13 light-years across. Stay safe and well.
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Talk about your "surprisingly confusing" write-ups... Sheesh. Even after reading it several times I couldn't figure out why the h-e-l-l the Orion Nebula was being referenced so many times, when this APOD was [b][i]supposed [/i][/b]to ostensibly be about the magnificent Great Turkey Nebula. And none of the links led me to be any the wiser. Had to do a separate google search to come across this from the APOD Podcast channel:


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5qs7jzUciI[/youtube]


Which begins with this helpful descriptive text:

[quote]In today's image, we see The Great Turkey Nebula - actually, the great Nebula in Orion with some adjustments made to give it the appearance of a turkey in honor of Thanksgiving Day in the United States today.[/quote]

Guess I'm just mentally challenged today. Well played, APOD, well played. :evil:

Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans.

For someone who just looks at and reads APOD for pleasure and is astronomically challenged, is this a faked image ala April 1st?
Thanks! :)

And here I was, trying to figure out M43 before I read the description. (I gave up and figured it was in infrared.)

Gobble; Gobble! :lol2: Corn or Cobb?


[attachment=0]TheGreatTurkeyNebula1024.jpg[/attachment]

I was born on Thanksgiving but... not THIS Thanksgiving.

Can't believe you caught me out on that one! :)

Is it April 1 already?

:lol2:

Thanks and a Happy T Day to everyone at APOD, my very first web page everyday.

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201126.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_201126.jpg[/img] [size=150]The Great Turkey Nebula[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Surprisingly reminiscent of The Great Nebula in Orion, The Great Turkey Nebula spans this creative field of view. [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131101.html]Of course[/url] if it were the Orion Nebula it would be our closest large stellar nursery, found at the edge of a large molecular cloud a mere 1,500 light-years away. [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090826.html]Also known as M42[/url], the Orion Nebula is visible to the eye as the middle "star" in the sword of Orion the Hunter, a constellation now rising in planet Earth's [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191122.html]evening skies[/url]. Stellar winds from clusters of newborn stars scattered throughout [url=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/1692-ssc2006-21a1-Multiwavelength-Orion-Nebula]the Orion Nebula[/url] sculpt its ridges and cavities seen in familiar in telescopic images. Similar in size to the Orion Nebula, this Great Turkey Nebula was imagined to be about 13 light-years across. Stay safe and well.


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