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Judi Lynn

(160,631 posts) Fri Feb 15, 2019, 11:16 PM Feb 2019

Image of the Day

By Hanneke Weitering 12 hours ago Science & Astronomy

A Stellar Nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud



(Image: © ESO/A McLeod et al.)
Friday, February 15, 2019: Inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's cosmic neighbors, is a Mickey Mouse-shaped cloud of dust and gas that is riddled with bright, newborn stars. The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured this view using its Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument. — Hanneke Weitering

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Image of the Day (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2019 OP
Thanks, Just made it my desktop background... pangaia Feb 2019 #1
Thanks! I love photos like this Clash City Rocker Feb 2019 #2
Folks would've killed for pics like this in the 60s....... lastlib Feb 2019 #3

Clash City Rocker

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2. Thanks! I love photos like this
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Sat Feb 16, 2019, 12:05 AM
Feb 2019

Years ago, my desktop photo was a shot of the surface of Mars. It was just red dirt, but holy crap, it was Martian dirt. People would catch me staring at it sometimes.

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3. Folks would've killed for pics like this in the 60s.......
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Sat Feb 16, 2019, 12:47 AM
Feb 2019

WOW!

Wouldn't that make an AWESOME black-light poster??

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