Starship Asterisk*

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[quote=Ann post_id=280895 time=1521878520 user_id=129702]
JAWS!!! :o

Seriously though, the best thing about the Hubble/Chandra/Spitzer image of NGC 602 is how it shows the nature of massive cluster formation. A couple of whopper stars are formed, along with a multitude of small stars. I have rarely seen that as clearly demonstrated as in this NASA image.
Ann
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[float=right]Also, I am reminded of Peter Sinfield's
"Still - the Big Friend",
for there is the face of a child within the jaws.
Even more clearly in your smaller rendering.
The face is in profile, facing to the right.
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[quote=Ann post_id=280895 time=1521878520 user_id=129702]
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So often I wish there were a "LIKE" button. This one would get a like from me.

















JAWS!!! :o

Seriously though, the best thing about the Hubble/Chandra/Spitzer image of NGC 602 is how it shows the nature of massive cluster formation. A couple of whopper stars are formed, along with a multitude of small stars. I have rarely seen that as clearly demonstrated as in this NASA image.

Ann
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"The Jaws of Creation"?

Wonderful image...love the distant galaxies...Through a distant galaxy....

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Amazingly beautiful! Enlarge the image and it's loaded with galaxies too, particularly the lower right hand corner, also a really nice face on spiral at the 8 o'clock position. Mike

It reminds me of the Hubble 25th Anniversary Image of Westerlund 2 — serious eye candy.

...and a new desktop appears on my computer screen.

It is so magnificent that it should have an APOD sound-track of glorious music accompanying it!

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JAWS!!! :o

Seriously though, the best thing about the Hubble/Chandra/Spitzer image of NGC 602 is how it shows the nature of massive cluster formation. A couple of whopper stars are formed, along with a multitude of small stars. I have rarely seen that as clearly demonstrated as in this NASA image.

Ann

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180324.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_180324.jpg[/img] [size=150]NGC 602 and Beyond[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Near the outskirts of the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100903.html]Small Magellanic Cloud[/url], a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution]young[/url] star cluster [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQgKX1fGxQ]NGC 602[/url]. Surrounded by natal gas and dust, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_602]NGC 602[/url] is featured in this [url=http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/04/]stunning Hubble image[/url] of the region, augmented by images in the X-ray by [url=http://chandra.harvard.edu/index.html]Chandra[/url], and in the infrared by [url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/main/index.html]Spitzer[/url]. [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061227.html]Fantastic[/url] ridges and swept back shapes strongly suggest that energetic radiation and shock waves from NGC 602's massive young stars have eroded the dusty material and triggered a [url=http://heritage.stsci.edu/2007/04/supplemental.html]progression of star formation[/url] moving away from the cluster's center. At the estimated distance of the Small Magellanic Cloud, [url=http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc602/]the Picture[/url] spans about 200 light-years, but a [url=http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/04/image/a/format/zoom]tantalizing[/url] assortment of background galaxies are also visible in [url=http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc602/]this sharp multi-colored view[/url]. The [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140605.html]background galaxies[/url] are hundreds of millions of light-years or more beyond NGC 602.


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