APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2018 Jan 09)

[axinte]

my first thought was pillow.
I am not alone.
But why be so unimaginative?
That pillow is obviously full of feathers.
Penguin feather.
So... Penguin Nebula.

[Erich The Mad Bassist]

The Corbomite Nebula! Seriously though, I can't get "Pillow" out of my mind.

[BigSurRidgewalker]

Since it is "in" the Swan, it should be the "foie gras" nebula.

[sillyworm2]

SNOWCONE

[Fafers]

I vote for "The flying squirrel nebula".

[uptitus]

Carnation nebula

[dlw]

The Cauliflower Nebula of course!

[nasty]

It seems to me a "cherry flavor boiled sweet.

[gbsthefish]

Mighty Mouse Nebula!

[Toots]

The pillow is the most appropriate considering that infomercial we all live with, MyPillow.com. It just works.

[madtom1999]

"Mermaids Purse' - for dogfish or skates egg sacks.

[Guest]

Flying Squirrel Nebula

[xistea]

cotton cosmopolitan candy planetary nebula ~

[Richard Seymour]

Looks like a Diablo juggling toy to me

[SGD73]

I suggest the Mermaid's Purse nebula (or shark egg nebula, less romantic)

[Nebula Girl]

"Pillow" nails it in my book. Everything else seems to be simply pillow-shaped objects.

[Steph13400]

Was brain nebula proposed?

[Vibean]

There's some good suggestions on here. Good job everybody! Here's one, how about Pteromyini? (The flying squirrel)

[loconnor]

With those colours, ( CDN English), the candy floss nebula!

[cdogUO8]

Pointy-haired Boss Nebula

[Mattyc]

Cotton Candy Nebula

[Cam]

Very nice! I'm thinking along the lines of "Bubblegum Nebula".

[neufer]

Since it is "in" the Swan, it should be the "foie gras" nebula.

<<Foie gras (French for "fat liver") is a luxury food product made of the liver of a duck or goose that has been specially fattened. Gavage-based foie gras production is controversial, due mainly to the animal welfare concerns about force-feeding, intensive housing and husbandry, and enlarging the liver to 10 times its usual volume. A number of countries and jurisdictions have laws against force-feeding, and the production, import or sale of foie gras; even where it is legal, a number of retailers decline to stock it. The industry repeatedly faces accusations of torture and cruelty.>>

<<Swan meat was regarded as a luxury food in England in the reign of Elizabeth I. A recipe for baked swan survives from that time: "To bake a Swan Scald it and take out the bones, and parboil it, then season it very well with Pepper, Salt and Ginger, then lard it, and put it in a deep Coffin of Rye Paste with store of Butter, close it and bake it very well, and when it is baked, fill up the Vent-hole with melted Butter, and so keep it; serve it in as you do the Beef-Pie." French satirist François Rabelais wrote in Gargantua and Pantagruel that a swan's neck was the best toilet paper he had encountered.>>

[Zubie]

It looks like two carnations bursting forth from the cosmic void. Before discovering that someone below already suggested this, it's the first image that came to mind when I looked at this amazing photograph. Considering also that the genus name for carnation is Dianthus, which means divine flower, "Carnation Nebula" would be an appropriate name for this object...

[FedMD]

Bow Tie Nebula