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quicksilvermad · 2 months
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Horsehead Nebula
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astronomypolls · 2 months
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fuckyeahgoodomens · 5 months
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Hi, question I think you've answered before, but what nebula do we see Crowley creating in the first scene of season 2? Thanks!
Hiya! :) Here. No sure if we identified more :).
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Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula in the Serpens constellation,
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Horsehead Nebula in the Orion constellation
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shaythempronouns · 5 months
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The Horsehead and Flame nebulae in Orion, captured in a HSO palette.
Shot at 440mm f/3 with a Newtonian telescope and a ZWO ASI533MM Pro camera.
Each channel made up of 24 5-minute exposures (24x300").
Stacked and processed in SiriL and GIMP. Support free software.
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quiltofstars · 4 months
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The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33, center) and the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024, lower left) // galactic_surfer
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drconstellation · 6 months
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Dark horses, revisited.
I was typing up a list tonight and something smacked me in the face.
If you haven't read @vidavalor's post about label on the wine bottle Crowley drinks from in the "Smitten" scene, read it first. They talk about all the horses that appear in S2. There is a red horse on the wine bottle, which refers us to to the relatively peaceful pre-war year of 1938, the dark horse statue in the shop that hold Crowley's sunglasses, Aziraphale is called a dark horse by Nina, and Jane Austin is Crowley's dark horse. And we may have missed out on more horses by not getting our wild west minisode.
Well, not all horses, I realised - we have missed one of the "dark horses," and its another direct reference to Crowley. Remember when Crowley does his infiltration of Heaven with Muriel, and he gets caught by Saraqael? They give us a quick call-back that they, too, once knew knew him as an angel.
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Aaaaah! Now I wouldn't be a good amateur astronomer if I didn't know what that was! Of course I do, I just didn't put it next to all the other "dark horses" did I? Lets do that.
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That's it, that's called a dark nebula, a big lot of dust and gas blocking off any light behind it. You've most likely seen this one before, it's quite famous.
Any thoughts on how this one fits in with the Starmaker, @vidavalor?
Oh, and I reckon we should add the Bentley in as the last dark horse, as it's Crowley's modern day steed, after all.
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thefirststarr · 4 months
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SPACEMAS DAY 1 ✨🪐🌎☄️☀️🌕
What a better way to start than with one of the faves!!
Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is around 1,500 light-years away, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex and is sculpted by stellar winds and radiation. About 5 light-years "tall," the dark interstellar cloud, is cataloged as Barnard 33, is a star forming region. It is visible only because its dust is silhouetted against the glowing red emission nebula IC 434. To the lower left of the image there is a contrasting blue reflection nebula NGC 2023, surrounding a hot, young star. The featured gorgeous color image combines both narrowband and broadband images recorded using several different telescopes.
Image Credit: Mark Hanson & Martin Pugh, SSRO, PROMPT, CTIO, NSF
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aeontriad · 4 months
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The Horsehead Nebula
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docdust · 5 months
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Horsehead Nebula
This is a NASA image of the horsehead nebula on which Crowley and Saraqael worked together.
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That's it. That's the post.
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horse-reviews · 6 months
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Horsehead Nebula
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Rating: ƱƱƱƱƱ (perfect)
Technically not fictional or a horse but don't you think it's beautiful for humans to look far out into space and see a cloud of cosmic matter and think to themselves "that looks like my friend the horse" because no matter where you go you will always remember what you love
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soni-dragon · 2 years
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The final collection of all my “space objects as sea creatures” paintings! This is mainly what I’ve been working on the past few weeks so that’s why art’s been so slow :3
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blasteffect · 1 year
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B33 - The Horsehead Nebula in SHO narrowband palette,
Image credit: Telescope Live,
Processing credit & Copyright: Bernard Miller
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fallendoctor · 8 months
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everyone say thank you angel!crowley and saraqael
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Easter egg or wishful thinking? Before the Beginning, we saw Crowley create the Eagle nebula. But in the corner, he also created the Horsehead Nebula (the one Saraqael was involved with as well!) The Horsehead Nebula is an important place in the classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
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Before the beginning of what would become the first words of William the Antichrist which later would become Good Omens, Neil wrote a book about that aforementioned book. (see what I did there?)
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So is the Nebula there a reference to The Hitchhiker's and Douglas Adams? Or just a nice coincidence?
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tatmanblue · 5 months
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Euclid’s view of the Horsehead Nebula by European Space Agency Via Flickr: Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion. At approximately 1375 light-years away, the Horsehead – visible as a dark cloud shaped like a horse’s head – is the closest giant star-forming region to Earth. It sits just to the south of star Alnitak, the easternmost of Orion’s famous three-star belt, and is part of the vast Orion molecular cloud. Many other telescopes have taken images of the Horsehead Nebula, but none of them are able to create such a sharp and wide view as Euclid can with just one observation. Euclid captured this image of the Horsehead in about one hour, which showcases the mission's ability to very quickly image an unprecedented area of the sky in high detail. In Euclid’s new observation of this stellar nursery, scientists hope to find many dim and previously unseen Jupiter-mass planets in their celestial infancy, as well as young brown dwarfs and baby stars. “We are particularly interested in this region, because star formation is taking place in very special conditions,” explains Eduardo Martin Guerrero de Escalante of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife and a legacy scientist for Euclid. These special conditions are caused by radiation coming from the very bright star Sigma Orionis, which is located above the Horsehead, just outside Euclid’s field-of-view (the star is so bright that the telescope would see nothing else if it pointed directly towards it). Ultraviolet radiation from Sigma Orionis causes the clouds behind the Horsehead to glow, while the thick clouds of the Horsehead itself block light from directly behind it; this makes the head look dark. The nebula itself is made up largely of cold molecular hydrogen, which gives off very little heat and no light. Astronomers study the differences in the conditions for star formation between the dark and bright clouds. The star Sigma Orionis itself belongs to a group of more than a hundred stars, called an open cluster. However, astronomers don’t have the full picture of all the stars belonging to the cluster. “Gaia has revealed many new members, but we already see new candidate stars, brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects in this Euclid image, so we hope that Euclid will give us a more complete picture,” adds Eduardo. The data in this image were taken in about one hour of observation. This colour image was obtained by combining VIS data and NISP photometry in Y and H bands; its size is 8800 x 8800 pixels. VIS and NISP enable observing astronomical sources in four different wavelength ranges. Aesthetics choices led to the selection of three out of these four bands to be cast onto the traditional Red-Green-Blue colour channels used to represent images on our digital screens (RGB). The blue, green, red channels capture the Universe seen by Euclid around the wavelength 0.7, 1.1, and 1.7 micron respectively. This gives Euclid a distinctive colour palette: hot stars have a white-blue hue, excited hydrogen gas appears in the blue channel, and regions rich in dust and molecular gas have a clear red hue. Distant redshifted background galaxies appear very red. In the image, the stars have six prominent spikes due to how light interacts with the optical system of the telescope in the process of diffraction. Another signature of Euclid special optics is the presence of a few, very faint and small round regions of a fuzzy blue colour. These are normal artefacts of complex optical systems, so-called ‘optical ghost’; easily identifiable during data analysis, they do not cause any problem for the science goals. The cutout from the full view of the Horsehead Nebula is at the high resolution of the VIS instrument. This is nine times better than the definition of NISP that was selected for the full view; this was done for the practical reason of limiting the format of the full image to a manageable size for downloading. The cutout fully showcases the power of Euclid in obtaining extremely sharp images over a large region of the sky in one single pointing. Although this image represents only a small part of the entire colour view, the same quality as shown here is available over the full field. The full view of the Horsehead Nebula at the highest definition can be explored on ESASky. [Image description] This square astronomical image is divided horizontally by a waving line between a white-orange cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively blue-purple-pink upper portion. From the nebula in the bottom half of the image, an orange cloud shaped like a horsehead sticks out. In the bottom left of the image, a white round glow is visible. The clouds from the bottom half of the image shine purple/blue light into the upper half. The top of the image shows the black expanse of space. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing stars of varying sizes and colours. Blue stars are younger and red stars are older. Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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quiltofstars · 9 months
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The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33, center) and the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024, bottom) // PMastro
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