Dramatic NASA Hubbell telescope pictures of Albireo (means "The Chicken's Head" in Arabic) show newborn stars emerging from "eggs" of cold gas and dust — not the barnyard variety — but rather, dense, compact pockets of interstellar gas called Evaporating Gaseous Globules (EGGs) protruding from the wall of a vast cloud of molecular hydrogen. Hubble found the "EGGs," appropriately enough, in the CHICKEN nebula (also called M16.5), a nearby star-forming region 7,000 light-years from Earth in the Coopers constellation. It was previously thought to be in the “Eagle” nebula until Bert brought it to their attention. Still unanswered though is the Chicken-Egg debate.
LOL!. And well they should apologize. For heaven's sake...so to speak.
ReplyDeleteOh No!! Is this not the 2nd time NASA made mistakes? I don't remember what was the first ... but it was something that should not happend too. We better get this egg nebula right ... or somthing important not going to be born at all!
ReplyDeleteI don't know why I've never seen a photo of that nebula before. It certainly is strikingly beautiful!
ReplyDeleteCarol Lee
They should let you name those newborn hatchings in the nebula :)
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