digg

Facebook Connect Join Digg About
See the original image at apod.nasa.gov

Astronomy Picture of the Day:Shaping NGC 6188

apod.nasa.gov — Dark shapes with bright edges winging their way through dusty NGC 6188 are tens of light-years long. The emission nebula is found near the edge of an otherwise dark large molecular cloud in the southern constellation Ara, about 4,000 light-years away.

Who dugg this? Made popular May 2, 2008

Digg DudeWhat is Digg?

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. Digg surfaces the best stuff as submitted and voted on by the community. Take the Tour to learn more.

27 Comments

show profanity settings
expand all
  • bakkouz, on 05/02/2008, -0/+7the archive for all these NASA Space images: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
  • maybeishould, on 05/02/2008, -0/+6Unbelievably beautiful colors. Wow.
  • somacybin, on 05/02/2008, -1/+7this picture is incredible
  • audreyfischer, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5Equally amazing to the beauty of this image is the fact that it was taken by commanding a robotic telescope located on a mountain-top thousands of miles away from the astrophotographer with a computer keyboard and the internet. It is just too cool that research-grade equipment is now accessible & affordable like never before. I have had a "cosmic-blast" introducing this to little grade school kids at an after-school astronomy club. Now they are on the road of a rewarding new hobby and perhaps, career.
  • AzeemAhmed, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3that picture is amazingly beautiful
  • audreyfischer, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3P.S. add 5 diggs to that. (wish one of those little kids were around so they could show me how to add those thumbs-up "diggs" :>)
  • CaptainShaun, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3Now I want to be an astronaut :(
  • MaidMirawyn, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2NGC 6188 has incredible colors, and I love all the interesting shapes in it. It could easily be a work of modern art!
  • Zer01, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2What is that blue thing in the upper right quadrant?
  • Inri137, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2Astronauts never get to see things as cool as this. You should become an astrophysicist. :)
  • x00x, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2 Poetry class dropout
  • dipdog21, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2Ever time I see these unbelievable pictures I sigh and think of all the effort we humans waste on pointless causes when we have so much more to explore..
  • MacroDaemon, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2I love the small blueish bright planetary nebula on the picture.
    I couldn't find its name, but did get some larger images of it. I didn't have time to mess with them though, so they're just basic images slapped together in an RGB. They do show somem more structure to it, though, such as that the central star is a double :)
    http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5682/nebulakd4. ...
    http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1402/nebula2tg1 ...
  • fuzzlog, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1Wow, a part of it looks like Africa at the center left of the picture
  • iancgi, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1make way for universal consciousness
  • Bactame, on 05/03/2008, -0/+1You mean the number 2? Funny shape and appears to have burned thru the dark cloud. This image using other filters seems to indicate its a distant galaxy or a pair of stars in close orbit. Anyway i've been wondering myself.
  • Bactame, on 05/02/2008, -1/+2This reminds me to expect rain pretty soon! Obviously such a storm is welcome...raining stars. The stars illuminating the edges of the cloud in the center are short timers as an association of O-B stars but the sun is also thought to have been an association star so may have a similar history.
  • BearinG, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1I always wonder where these colors come from.. I mean all we see is black and white dots when we look up.. I always think "are these like filtered pictures of heat or something else?"

    Probably because I don't know anything about astronomy too.. Still very impressive though
  • Bactame, on 05/03/2008, -0/+1That funny thing in the upper right quadrant which Macrodaemon and Zer01 mention is a pair of stars in close orbit. They are known as HD 150135 and HD150136 and Zer01's images demonstrate. The stars are blurred but the first link in the APOD points this out but failed to say exactly where they are in the image. These are O class stars so won't live that long so Oh Be a Fine Girl...
  • phantom_mullet, on 05/03/2008, -0/+1NGC? What about OGC?
  • NatMe, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0It looks like a hawk feeding its baby.
    Amazing.
  • KimberlyLane, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0I definitely digg it.
  • Shrooms27, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0ohhhhhh pwetty
  • Sweettupelo, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. WOW!
  • dbXXd, on 05/03/2008, -1/+1"Formed in that region only a few million years ago."
    How the ***** they know that.... please.... nice pic anyways.
  • somacybin, on 05/02/2008, -3/+0why did this response get so many negative diggs
  • jaigan1979, on 05/02/2008, -9/+0it looks like two angles making love and soon expect small stars to be born :-)

  • Add a Comment

    Login or register to comment!
    Or, sign-in super fast with your Facebook account ...

© Digg Inc. 2009 — Content created and posted by Digg users is dedicated to the public domain | Terms of Use Updated | Privacy Policy
DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.