APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)

[Guest]

Pillow Nebula

[pmarti]

Toasted Marshmellow Nebula

[JRH]

PILLOW Nebulae. It looks just like a big comfy pillow.

[Elton]

Pavlova- it looks like the national desert of Australia

[DavidL]

As soon as the picture came up on teh screen, I thought "Ah, obviously the Ice Crean Bar nebula."

[gbennett12]

How about this one: the Pillow Sham?

[urban pilgrim]

the jellyfish nebula

[Barry]

Toasted Marshmallow

[wbbauer]

Definitely the Pillow Nebula

[Cousin Ricky]

The Flying Squirrel Nebula—that was my immediate impression.

(It also looks like a pillow with an unusually large tag not to be removed under penalty of law.)

[drhawor777]

I agree with iceberg nebula ...

[bevbike2]

Frosted Mini-wheat

[kjmarks@att.net]

It looks like popcorn. Call it the popcorn nebula

[Becker]

toasted marshmallow

[leelu]

Pop-Tart

[Anavar]

Definitely the pillow nebula.

[homerjay]

fleece nebula

[Skyzor]

Mighty Mouse!

[Isaiah 40:26]

The Ravioli Nebula

[kim baldwin]

it is a pillow nebula!

[SeismoSteve]

The Beignet nebula. Google it and look at the image. It's a dead ringer.

[mistoffolees]

The article has an error. It says that NGC 7027 began expanding about 600 years ago. That is incorrect - the nebula is about 2,900 light years away, so we can't see anything that has happened in the past 2900 years. Rather, they should say that the light that reaches us today shows and expansion that had been underway for 600 years when the light left the nebula.

[shingles]

howling wolf nebula or just wolf nebula

[FieryJack]

The Snowball nebula

[tinman]

My vote would be for "Pillow Nebula"!