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M78 and Reflecting Dust Clouds in Orion on APOD

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  • Akraz, on 03/18/2008, -21/+1Please go die in a fire. you beat my submission by 1 minute.
    • cinnabon, on 03/18/2008, -1/+2I'm wondering, are you guys sit in front of the browser and keep refreshing the Nasa site, waiting for a new pic. Once a pic is out and submit it to Digg immediately? If so, get a life please...
  • Jako, on 03/18/2008, -9/+1funny, i submitted mine before both of you using the link on their site.
    http://digg.com/space/M78_and_Reflecting_Dust_Clou ...
  • Bactame, on 03/18/2008, -2/+4Who says a little dirt is so unattractive.
  • mta3d, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2wonderful image, one of the best ive seen on APOTD. im guessing a space telescope took that pic?
  • teka197, on 03/18/2008, -2/+3Fathom the distance at the speed of light for 1,600 years - mind boggling....
  • gwrede, on 03/18/2008, -6/+0I spotted God!! Look in the larger nebula, in the light, on the right side, facing left. He has a bierd. He's obviously very concentrated doing Acts of Creation. Whee!!
  • mongrel, on 03/18/2008, -6/+3Swamp gas, nothing to see here
  • moolaismyfriend, on 03/18/2008, -2/+2Cool! I can't wait until we can harness the energy to travel that distance.

    After spending hundreds of years and an incredible amount of energy and resources we can happen upon a lonely planet and abduct some drunkard from a trailer park and stick some probes in his ass. Then we can escape and come back to our planet and never make any contact with this species ever again.
  • turleh, on 03/18/2008, -0/+3cheers for the wallpaper.
  • Tr33fiddy, on 03/18/2008, -6/+3Now, I love the apod daily picture as much as the next man but if every picture, every day, makes the Digg front page then I have to begin to wonder what that says about Digg.

    Surely it's about finding interesting articles, images which catch the community's imagination to the extent that it is highlighted for all to see? A natural way of showcasing important, rare and compelling content?
    If the apod picture is going to make it's way onto the front page every single day though, Digg is nothing more than an advert for others sites, incapable of discerning between a popular site and genuinely interesting content.

    Hell, register.co.uk is a decent site. So is the onion and a thousand other sites - why not just link all of their new content to the front page when they appear?
    • moolaismyfriend, on 03/18/2008, -4/+1go away
    • prleet, on 03/18/2008, -4/+0man you internet whore...
    • hybridcreation, on 03/18/2008, -2/+3140 people, and counting, don't agree with you.

      Anyone can go to the APOD site and look at the pictures. Digg gives us a way to discuss them.


      That said...I had never heard of a reflection nebula before.
    • themadhatter444, on 03/18/2008, -3/+1What Hybrid said. The cool ones get Dugg, and while APOD is my homepage, I would rather click the link through Digg. It lets me know that hundreds of people think this picture is cool, just like me.
      • JulyZerg, on 03/18/2008, -1/+3ALL of them get dugg. Not just the cool ones.
        • hybridcreation, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1That probably says something, doesn't it?
  • dfours, on 03/18/2008, -4/+2i agree with tr33fiddy.
  • navghtivs, on 03/18/2008, -0/+35 light-years across, that's 300,000 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
  • pizzatsf, on 03/18/2008, -1/+8I've also spotted the face. http://terite.com/digg/OMGFACE.jpg
    • guibom, on 03/18/2008, -0/+1Hahah, nice.. me too.
    • Spartan225, on 03/18/2008, -0/+1That was one of the first things I noticed. The human brain hard at work I guess.....or is it something more? (cue X-Files theme song now)
    • rilhend, on 03/19/2008, -0/+0I think it looks like Kong Fu Tze.
  • HiKevinRose, on 03/18/2008, -0/+1So, uhm... I might be a little weak with my star-gazing prowess, but can anyone point out which stars make up the constellation, or at least the belt? I can't seem to pick them out and I'm not sure if I'm just plain missing them or if the image is too far zoomed to make out which is what.
  • cinnabon, on 03/18/2008, -1/+3Kevin Rose, can we have 2 new sections for Nasa and xkcd under Images please? These pics keep popping up on the front page....
  • FlapJaw, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1the face freaks me out
  • 0ldMike, on 03/25/2008, -0/+0It should be called "Purple Haze" nebula. You can even see a jimi hendrix face through the haze man.
  • saffronchef, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0Dark and beautiful...
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