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elVis has now left the nebula, ladies & gentlemen!
elVis has left the nebula

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1008a/ wrote:
<<The little-known nebula IRAS 05437+2502 billows out among the bright stars and dark dust clouds that surround it in this striking image from the Hubble Space Telescope. It is located in the constellation of Taurus (the Bull), close to the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Unlike many of Hubble’s targets, this object has not been studied in detail and its exact nature is unclear. At first glance it appears to be a small, rather isolated, region of star formation and one might assume that the effects of fierce ultraviolet radiation from bright young stars probably were the cause of the eye-catching shapes of the gas. However, the bright boomerang-shaped feature may tell a more dramatic tale. The interaction of a high velocity young star and the cloud of gas and dust may have created this unusually sharp-edged bright arc. Such a reckless star would have been ejected from the distant young cluster where it was born and would travel at 200,000 km/hour or more through the nebula.>>

Lasse H wrote:How could a star that has already left the nebula still light up the arc?

bluebird wrote:Might want to consider a "Fusion Nebula" - a section of a nebula where the density/temp have achieved the levels to achieve a sustaining fusion reaction.

Ann wrote:ElVis has left the nebula, leaving his V behind!

Elis has left the nebula!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elis wrote:
<<Elis (Ancient Greek: Ἦλις) is an ancient district in southern Greece on the Peloponnesos peninsula. The first Olympic festival was organized in Elean land, Olympia, Greece by the authorities of Elis in 776 BCE. The local form of the name was Valis, or Valeia, and its meaning, in all probability, “the lowland” (compare with the word "Valley"). According to Strabo, the first settlement was created by Oxylus the Aetolian. The city, built in 471 BC, had the authority of the Olympic games and believed to be a holy city, so was unwalled. The Eleans built a temple dedicated to Hades in one of the precincts of Elis. Once a year, the doors to the Temple of Hades would open, however, no one would enter bar the priests.>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preseli_Hills wrote:
<<The Presely Hills or Presely Mountains (Welsh: Mynydd Y Preseli / Y Preselau) are a range of hills in north Pembrokeshire, West Wales. The hills rise to 536 metres above sea level at Foel Cwmcerwyn and are dotted with prehistoric remains including evidence of Neolithic settlement. In 1923, the petrologist Herbert Henry Thomas identified that Bluestone from the hills corresponded to that used to build the inner circle of Stonehenge.>>

aviatorone wrote:They should rename this to, "Gods Hand'.