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In reply to the discussion: My God, this is beautiful! [View all]Mustellus
(328 posts)22. an "Open Cluster"....
A newly formed batch of blue-white super giants begins to evaporate the cloud they formed in. The shock waves from their explosions as supernovas after their brief lifetimes will compress the cloud and cause the formation of lower mass, sun-like stars. At the bottom, a lone super giant ( O class star, probably ) has begun its own hole... The small dark knots may be near the critical density to begin collapse to form another solar system....
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So what? The same can be said about most mundane earthly photographs too. -nt
Bradical79
Dec 2012
#86
No - we'd be able to detect the dust. (and there'd be a lot fewer stars we could see) (nt)
jeff47
Nov 2012
#50
So, Dad-unit, I borrowed your spaceship and . . . I kinda lost control and it sorta blew up . . .
tclambert
Nov 2012
#20
Anybody else see the biblical looking figure emerging from the right of the pointy cloud?
SleeplessinSoCal
Nov 2012
#26
Yep - and someone kneeling, praying? up to the left right under the pointy part
Tigress DEM
Nov 2012
#42
Didn't mean to. But I saw it right away and couldn't shake the vision.
SleeplessinSoCal
Nov 2012
#45
Down the foggy ruins of time to the gates of creation...awesome...just awesome.
1620rock
Nov 2012
#32