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Milky Way over Devils Tower

Explanation: A mysterious formation known as Devils Tower rises into the dark above northeastern Wyoming's prairie landscape in this 16 frame panoramic view. Seen against the night sky's thin, pale clouds and eerie green airglow, star clusters and nebulae of the Milky Way arc toward the galaxy's central realm at right of the frame. Of course the scene contains the Milky Way's own haunting and grisly visages of halloween, including ghosts, a flaming skull, a glowing eye and a witch's broom. To find them, slide your cursor over the picture or just follow this link, if you dare. And have a safe and Happy Halloween!

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Awww I was expecting vdB141!

That is such a cool picture....

Happy Halloween...to all our APOD friends!

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What a fun APOD! Gorgeous, too. Kudos and treats to all!!

Thanks everyone I thought it would be fun to throw in a bit of humor for the holiday. I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Halloween.

starsurfer wrote:Awww I was expecting vdB141!

Its in the picture so you win! Its labeled Ghost of Cepheus.

A remarkable picture. Not flagged in the description is the Andromeda Galaxy (lower left), an large aurora (same place) - and unless i'm mistaken - toward the lower rigght - some nocto luminescent clouds

The caldron of the Milky Way holds more scary places than we can imagine though quite a few are offered in the brew today. It might be exciting to leave the safety of our on home but, once there, the isolation would surely be worse than any film producer has yet put to screen. Being alone far from home might be a Trekkie's dream but I'm kind of glad to be here with the rest of you.

Happy Halloween for today; we can "explore strange new worlds" tomorrow – Thanks to our "fiends" on and at APOD!!

She's a witch!
Which?
The one riding the broomstick!
-Excerpt from "Close Encounters of the 42nd Kind"

LoveLOVELOVE today's APOD!

Thanks for all the great sky pictures. I can't start my day until I see your daily take of the cosmos!

Is this the only arm of our galaxy we always see from earth?

Thanks

I was curious about the road sign in the bottom right hand corner of David's photo, so I zoomed in . It's amazing…

and we'll have fun, fun, fun 'til her daddy takes her broomstick awayyyyy..

First picture of Samantha Stevens I've seen in a while

Gee, APOD threads can sure be 'out-of-this-world' in many ways.

This thread is awesome, you guys are hilarious!

Great thematic APOD. Thanks!

The Devil's Tower has had many names in Native American languages. Most of them having to do with a place of Bears...."Home of the Bears" and the like....
My last name means.....Bear Hamlet....or Place of the Bears...Interesting.

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What movie does this bring to mind space fans?

BDanielMayfield wrote:What movie does this bring to mind space fans?

It reminds me of my uncomfortable relationship with mashed potato. I was terrified by the movie as a small child. After the mashed potato scene, I hid behind the seats in the cinema for the rest of the film and missed seeing the aliens. Yet around the same time, I was happily projecting my dark side all over town, in my "Darth Vader Lives" t-shirt. Psychoanalyse that.

Nitpicker wrote:

BDanielMayfield wrote:What movie does this bring to mind space fans?

It reminds me of my uncomfortable relationship with mashed potato. I was terrified by the movie as a small child. After the mashed potato scene, I hid behind the seats in the cinema for the rest of the film and missed seeing the aliens. Yet around the same time, I was happily projecting my dark side all over town, in my "Darth Vader Lives" t-shirt. Psychoanalyse that.

Well technically it is kinda true as he does still live as a ghost.

Good APOD . Thankfully I was not as as I thought I would be. It's nice to see Pluto indicated .

PS. I discovered that there is a limit of 3 smilies in a post. I did not know that!

starsurfer wrote:

Nitpicker wrote:

BDanielMayfield wrote:What movie does this bring to mind space fans?

It reminds me of my uncomfortable relationship with mashed potato. I was terrified by the movie as a small child. After the mashed potato scene, I hid behind the seats in the cinema for the rest of the film and missed seeing the aliens. Yet around the same time, I was happily projecting my dark side all over town, in my "Darth Vader Lives" t-shirt. Psychoanalyse that.

Well technically it is kinda true as he does still live as a ghost.

The pedantic is weak in you, young starsurfer! Technically, it was never true. But I was talking about the late 1970s, when our world only knew of one Star Wars film, the plot of which saw the Empire lose ground and Darth Vader survive in corporeal form.