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What do you see in the stars?

February 6th, 2013 · 104 Comments · Uncategorized

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Meet the newly named Manatee nebula. Officially known as W50, this cloud of gas and dust is the remnant of a supernova explosion that happened 10,000 years ago in the constellation Aquila.

This image, released and renamed by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on Jan. 19 to coincide with the Florida Manatee Festival, bears witness to the correspondence that heavenly phenomena sometimes have for more familiar things on Earth. Both the NRAO staff and members of the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, home to many endangered West Indian manatees, hope to draw attention to the 40th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act with the release. The nebula joins the ranks of other nebulas named for animals, such as the Eagle nebula, Crab nebula, and Horsehead nebula.

But that’s not all. According to a press release from both organizations, manatees have a lot in common with the Manatee nebula

Read more at the source.

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  • MOOOOOOOOO

    HEY! JARAT! LETS TALK ABOUT SEA COWS!

  • http://twitter.com/hbraica Haydée Braica

    I love these articles that you find on the stars

  • Be my Guest

    So today we’re learning some astronomy that’s great.
    The nebula is beautiful but it look to me like a huge bird.

  • http://twitter.com/mariepritcahrd marie pritchard

    Hi … the cloud of gas … i also see in my imagination ,,, one big world in the middle on the right like an oversize alien with its legs and arms attached around it…. on the left another alien with a huge claw…. like good v evil… fighting for the planet kind of thing lol

    Nighty night :) xXx

  • http://twitter.com/StarNoctis ♪♪Sylvie

    Dreams and hope.

  • Jen

    It’s the last of the star whales.

  • http://twitter.com/kassiafelix Kássia Félix ☦

    I see you, in a distant star of all others, look at it, and remember you!

  • triple6

    Pacman fish and seal in its mouth.

  • http://twitter.com/DIANA2011A DIANA MELISSA ∆₪

    beautiful i like so much :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrea.leguizamon.5815 Andrea Leguizamon

    I love Manatees! They are very cute…Is striking similarity between both images.Is wonderful…

  • Erw625

    Malabar grouper, with a hen in its mouth.

  • Erw625

    hmmm, maybe an anglerfish with a hen in its mouth?

  • BitterSweet Nothings

    A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it’s the most painful thing you’ll ever have to do and that you’ve ever done. But what’s yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it’ll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won’t have to put it back in the sky again.

    - C JoyBell C

  • http://twitter.com/FlipsenK Mandy C.

    and april 6th?

  • loubielou

    Why is it that we have to see anything at all, I don’t want to see eyes and spiders and manatees, why can we not see something as it is, as beautiful and vast and mysterious as the heavens are. Why do we live in a world that we have to put everything into a box, label it and set on a shelf for everyone to tear to pieces diminish and detract from it’s original purpose.

  • Real True

    Own / earthly forms projecting into the other worlds (which may be quite different genetic structures predominate) is not necessarily the right attitude. But it’s certainly fun.

  • Ninon

    Un Lamentin :)

  • marina

    “good friends are like stars. you dont always see them, but you always know they are there”

  • http://twitter.com/melanigothic ¿Dónde está Wally?

    the stars of space reflect the beauty of nature! I love this pic

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