Science
Related: About this forumthe biggest rose in the universe (that we know of)
The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237)
APOD has the wallpaper sized version: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120214.html
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)this one is astonishing!
eyewall
(674 posts)I have the APOD app but didn't see this one.
Really beautiful.
sce56
(4,828 posts)lastlib
(23,140 posts)Think I'll send her this one! Thank You!
sarge43
(28,940 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)ROTFLMAOPMP!
That's the first time I've heard that.
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)I scour jpl and nasa for images of Saturn (I'm a Capricorn and it's my ruling planet) because I just can't wrap my mind around a planet spinning 22,058 mph with 10 hour days that 10 earths can fit inside. I got the sexiest images of Saturn on my work desktop, lol.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)I'm a big advocate of NASA and the space programs. AFAIC, we should have already landed a human on one of Saturn's moons already, but they kept cutting and cutting NASA's budget.
MarkCharles
(2,261 posts)BuroshKozorg
(21 posts)It's really humbling to think of the sheer scale of the universe. That nebula is 130 light years across. A light year as you probably know is the distance light travels in one year. The farthest distance any human being has traveled is about 360,000 kilometers away, or 1.2 light seconds, to the moon. Just for reference, the sun is 695,500 kilometers across!