By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-24 18:55:20 | Updated at 2024-09-30 19:27:46
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - NGC 6727: The Rampaging Baboon Nebula
NASA ^ | 24 Sep, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Alpha Zhang & Ting Yu
Posted on 09/24/2024 11:42:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: This dusty region is forming stars. Part of a sprawling molecular cloud complex that resembles, to some, a rampaging baboon, the region is a relatively close by 500 light-years away toward the constellation Corona Australis. That's about one third the distance of the more famous stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. Mixed with bright nebulosities, the brown dust clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in the Milky Way and obscure from view embedded stars still in the process of formation. The eyes of the dust creature in the featured image are actually blue reflection nebulas cataloged as NGC 6726, 6727, 6729, and IC 4812, while the red mouth glows with light emitted by hydrogen gas. Just to the upper left of the baboon's head is NGC 6723, a whole globular cluster of stars nearly 30,000 light years in the distance.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 09/24/2024 11:42:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 09/24/2024 11:42:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Pinging the APOD list
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3 posted on 09/24/2024 11:43:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Rampaging Baboon ..........................
NO COMMENT............... 🙄
4 posted on 09/24/2024 11:44:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Probably the safest way to go. I had one in mind, but don’t want to get banned.
6 posted on 09/24/2024 11:45:50 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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The hole in the middle looks like a chicken.
I call this
The Chicken In A Lightning Storm Nebula
7 posted on 09/24/2024 11:47:29 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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8 posted on 09/24/2024 11:48:54 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Some names for these things make a little sense; but it’s hard to see how they got ‘Raging Baboon’...
9 posted on 09/24/2024 11:50:26 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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It does sort of look like a raging baboon.
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