Lagoon Nebula, Gas, Dust, Stars, and Supper (2009 July 22)

[emc]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090722.html

M8 looks like a giant Space Morp about to gulp the Trifid Nebula. Nature at its most gruesome…

[orin stepanek]

I like this picture of the Lagoon Nebula. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050803.html It's really neat! 8)

Orin

[neufer]

Lagoon, n. [It. or Sp. laguna, L. lacuna ditch, pool, pond, lacus lake. See Lake, and cf. Lacuna.]

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.o ... ion/Lagoon

<<A lagoon is a stretch of comparatively shallow salt water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral reef, or similar structure. Thus, the enclosed body of water behind a barrier reef such as an atoll's reef is called a lagoon.

This application of lagoon in English dates from 1769. It adapted and extended the sense of the Venetian laguna (cf Latin lacuna, 'empty space'), which specifically referred to Venice's shallow, island-studded stretch of salt water, protected from the Adriatic by the barrier beaches of the Lido.

On the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States, such lagoons enclosed by barrier islands retain the more traditional designation 'sounds.' Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound might more accurately be termed lagoons. Though Long Island Sound is a true sound, Great South Bay, between Long Island and the barrier beaches of Fire Island, is actually a lagoon.>>

"The mermaids lounge around in the Mermaid Lagoon without a care in the world.
It is not safe for mortals to visit Mermaid Lagoon at night.
This is the most dangerous place in Neverland."

[NoelC]

Thank you, APOD editors, for making it clear that the colors are false: "The red-glowing gas, shown on the above left in re-assigned colors..." It's a very beautiful image.

This is one of my all-around favorites for Lagoon images - the same astro data captured by Jim Misti, and processed by many different image processors, (mostly) in visible color:

http://www.mistisoftware.com/astronomy/ ... m8_Med.htm

-Noel

[orin stepanek]

Thank you, APOD editors, for making it clear that the colors are false: "The red-glowing gas, shown on the above left in re-assigned colors..."

This is one of my all-around favorites for Lagoon images - the same astro data captured by Jim Misti, and processed by many different image processors:

http://www.mistisoftware.com/astronomy/ ... m8_Med.htm

-Noel

Have you noticed all the smiley faces on all the pictures of the Lagoon Nebula? 8)

Orin

[NoelC]

Actually I hadn't noticed that before now. It's a very happy seeming nebula.

Probably from this time forward I'll never be able to look at the Lagoon without seeing the smiley.

-Noel

[neufer]

Have you noticed all the smiley faces on all the pictures of the Lagoon Nebula? 8)

"The mermaids lounge around in the Mermaid Lagoon without a care in the world."

[BMAONE23]

Thank you, APOD editors, for making it clear that the colors are false: "The red-glowing gas, shown on the above left in re-assigned colors..." It's a very beautiful image.

This is one of my all-around favorites for Lagoon images - the same astro data captured by Jim Misti, and processed by many different image processors, (mostly) in visible color:

http://www.mistisoftware.com/astronomy/ ... m8_Med.htm

-Noel

Nice link Noel.....

Though I must admit that the Dark Globule in the lower left corner of the image(s) strongly resembles Homer Simpson paying a visit to Mystery Science Theater 3000