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I see it as the two blobs are it's head and beak and what you said is it's head is the left wing tip. Vivid imagination required. Do Astronomers drink a lot?

Apr 13, 2013 at 09:20 AM

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Just amazing! And that just happened?!

Apr 13, 2013 at 10:44 PM

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Mark Metternich wrote:
And that just happened?!

I just finished taking the photo, but the nebula has been out there for a long, long time. The only advantage of astrophotography over "normal" photography is that the objects out there change very, very slowly. A "star forming" region is an area of relatively dense concentration of (principally) hydrogen gas; gravity causes the gas to "congeal" into stars, but that process takes a long, long time. I suspect our children's children's children could take substantially the same photo.

Apr 13, 2013 at 10:50 PM

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