NGC 7293: the Eye of God from CFHT
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Helix Nebula | Nick Fritz
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Helix Nebula
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At the Edge of the Helix - April 22nd, 1996.
"While exploring the inner edge of the Helix Nebula with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, astronomers were able to produce this striking image - rich in details of an exotic environment. This planetary nebula, created near the final phase of a Sun-like star's life, is composed of tenuous shells of gas ejected by the hot central star. The atoms of gas, stripped of electrons by ultraviolet radiation from the central star, radiate light at characteristic energies, allowing specific chemical elements to be identified. In this image, emission from nitrogen is represented as red, hydrogen emission as green, and oxygen as blue. The inner edge of the nebula (the direction to the central star) is toward the top left. Clearly visible close to the inner edge are finger shaped "cometary knots"."
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The Helix Nebula via NASA
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NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Ultraviolet image of NGC 7293, also known as the Helix Nebula - the nearest example of what happens to a star as it evolves into a white dwarf (May 5, 2005)
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pomni... in SPACE!!!
Pomni is floating into the Helix Nebula!
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Helix Nebula
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The Helix Nebula, or the "Eye of Sauron" is one of the closest planetary nebulae to us 650 ly away.
This picture has been a game changer for me.
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Helix nebula :: the Eye of God
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"Generally, ordinary thinking involves running between that and this. You are reporting back to yourself all the time. You do not just think; you think and then report back. However, when this back and forth petty journey is not happening, there is still a transcendental sort of thinking, so to speak. With this kind of thinking, you are seeing things precisely as they are, rather than having to refer back to anyone, because the whole being is seeing. The whole area is a giant eye; it is one single giant eye."
~ Milarepa: Lessons from the Life & Songs of Tibet’s Great Yogi
by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, page 204
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NGC7293 Helix Nebula in Acuarius In Infrared.
Spitzer Telescope/ NASA. Procesed: Judy Schmidt.
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The Helix Nebula 2023, 2018 from CFHT
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The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293 // Cédric Humbert
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Is your PFP an eye or like something in space?? I have been wondering about this for ages
My PFP is a high resolution image of the Helix Nebula!
It’s located in the Aquarius constellation, which coincidentally happens to be my birth sign too!
It’s also called the Eye of God, for pretty obvious reasons
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Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula - April 16th, 1996.
"Four hundred fifty light-years from Earth, the wind from a dying, Sun-like star produced a planetary nebula, popularly known as the Helix. While exploring the Helix's gaseous envelope with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers discovered indications of 1,000s of striking "cometary knots" like those shown above. So called because of their resemblence to comets, they are actually much larger - their heads are several billion miles across (roughly twice the size of the our Solar System itself) while their tails, pointing radially away from the central star, stretch over 100 billion miles. Previously known from ground-based observations, the sheer number of cometary knots found in this single nebula is astonishing. What caused them to form? Hot, fast moving shells of nebular gas overrunning cooler, denser, slower shells ejected by the star during an earlier expansion may produce these droplet-like condensations, as the two shells intermix and fragment. An intriguing possibility is that instead of dissipating over time, these objects could collapse and form Pluto-like bodies. If so, these icy worlds created near the end of a star's life would be numerous in our galaxy."
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Helix Nebula
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ.of Ariz.)
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