#eight-burst nebula

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The Eight-Burst Nebula, NGC 3132 // Philip Bartlett

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NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula

Credits: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team, STScI, AURA

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Let me spice it up a bit and ask how many shots for way of wanderlust, sumin of nebula, and diaz of varsity for Kazuo, ario, turkey boy pavo, and yeong 🤭👀

"TURKEY BOY PFTT-" Ario bursts into laughter. The older boy grumbles.

"I dislike that so many of our Spanish fans keep calling me that..." Pavo mumbles. He clears his throat as he thinks about his answer, ignoring Ario's laughs. "But anyways, Yeong is out doing practice so it'll just be us three. So let's see...Way sunbae...oh, Kazuo is a really big fanboy of him, aren't you?" He asks the younger boy besides him. Kazuo blushes shyly.

"Uhm...y-yeah...I'm...a big fan of Wanderlust sunbaenims..." He answers a bit quietly, covering his blushing cheeks with his hands. Ario giggles.

"He really likes Way more than the others," The brunette adds. Kazuo groans.

"Don't spread that information!"

"He's not wrong," Pavo laughs. "Honestly, probably seven shots. I'd need to be very drunk if I were to sleep with him. Sumin from Nebula sunbaes...I don't think any...she's not really my type. No offense." He smiles.

"Sumin sunbae is pretty," Ario smiles. "But yeah, she's not really my type either. But she's nice to be friends with!" Pavo nods in agreement.

"And for Diaz sunbaenim? Probably six shots. He's cool and all, but I probably need a lot to be bold to ask him." He hums. He turns to Kazuo, noticing how the raven head has calmed down a bit. "What about you Kazuo?"

"Oh uhm...for Sumin sunbae...maybe eight shots?" Kazuo says.

"That's a lot," Ario comments. Kazuo shrugs.

"I'd probably have to do it while I'm drunk," Kazuo says. "But for Diaz sunbaenim...I mean he's kinda cool...probably four shots."

"And for Way sunbae?" Ario smirks. The raven head goes quiet, his cheeks turning red again as he thinks.

"U-uhm...I...kinda would say I could sleep with him sober but...I'd be really nervous so...maybe five."

"Damn, alright," Ario laughs lightly. "For Way sunbae, I'd probably go with three shots. He's pretty cute hehe. Diaz sunbae is kinda hot, not gonna lie...Jooha hyung is so lucky~ But honestly, if they weren't together, I'd probably do one shot."

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My aethers are finally finished... and they'll be up to nest as soon as i write lore for them. they're both named after both celestial bodies AND have musical references [the eight burst nebula, but also similar to 8bit or 8tracks] [cassiopeia, or or the song Casio by Gorrilaz].

i think i'm going to make them weird edm artists...

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Spots a Jamboree of Stars Hiding in a Nebula

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Spots a Jamboree of Stars Hiding in a Nebula

The James Webb Space Telescope had a terrific 2022—and it will not stop churning out the hits as the year closes out. One of its first bangers, released in July, was of the Southern Ring Nebula (or “Eight-Burst” nebula), a cloud of gas stretching out to nearly a light-year in distance. The newest photo peered even more into the object and revealed an incredible array of new structures and colors…

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Spots a Jamboree of Stars Hiding in a Nebula

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Spots a Jamboree of Stars Hiding in a Nebula

Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach The James Webb Space Telescope had a terrific 2022—and it will not stop churning out the hits as the year closes out. One of its first bangers, released in July, was of the Southern Ring Nebula (or “Eight-Burst” nebula), a cloud of gas stretching out to nearly a light-year in distance. The newest photo peered even more into the object…

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Have another!

It based off of this:

The House of X for some background and Charles's catsuit outfit and helmet Cerebro

Burning Essence of the Heart (title subject to change)

Nova VI was a world drenched in sunlight, where once it was a rouge planet bound by none. No star lit its way. A cold barren world, trapped in infinite darkness. A darkness that it knew all its life.

‘yehi 'or’ His father said of him. ‘Let there be light.’

Separating the darkness from the light becoming day and vanquishing the darkness.

Reached forth beckoning nebulas full of dust gas closer, the pillars of creation. Gravity compelling them to follow. Through great wonders.

Hyrogdren, a simple single atom.

That bond water and fueled the likes of super giant stars that swallowed planets whole. Life in one. But many in the one. Connected in an endless dance. A cycle. To give life. And was given life in the beginning of the universe. The bang that started it all. To build life. It was the essence of life itself. The building block where all life found its heritage in. From one electron circling one proton.

It interconnected and weaved the fabric of reality of life; in countless patterns, infinity complex.

Without it there would be no life. No mutation to bless them with the gifts giventh to them. To seed new life into the tomb worlds. To explore the very depths of their powers, to expand their very reach to know no bounds, to find just what they could do.

The cloud became thicker and swirled, at its center a glowing ember ball, hot and glowing, pulling more matter toward it; smatching gas and dust particles generating heat until jets of burst forth from it poles. The winds pelt against them temping them to leave and let go to leave this process to the universe. They did not relent, doing the work of millions of years in seven days; a young star crowned by pillows of dust as it danced around the core.

Sweat poured from them, giving everything, every ounce of contrantion; heaving breaths. They faced together hollowing winds of hunts traveling the great cosmos, it flapped capes that threatened to snap, it whipped them in defeants of not what it wanted to be but what would become of it if it didn’t escape from instructive gravity, it pulled and pulled, compressing harder and harder none could escape from its maw. They stood firm. As the young star grew warmer and warmer and swept into itself enough material to begin a new process: fusion.

Catapult energy a sunder, dispating the cloud

The closest thing to immortality.

But they gave birth to a living, breathing star.

Star makers.

Brought light to this world. They lit a star with their souls, breathed life into it. An enduring light. An internal candle. Truly magnificent to behold.

Every edifice of the sprawling city beyond it made to capture the eminence of light and heat; a living breathing Dyson sphere; its living abundance to useable energy. The intense heat manifested as streets of lava. Radiating incivile heat waves shimmering

There would be no need for the extraction, exploitation of the dead’s planet resources.

No ruling class of above or below.

For mutantkind this place was to meditation and study of their powers and of themselves.

“Erik, how can we colonize Arakko, seed dead worlds, give life to stars and yet, we cannot give Peter confidence?”

“I’m sure he’s doing fine.

“It isn’t like there’s going to be a mutli-universe crossover event that’s going to happen in like the two and half hours while you’re gone.”

“You could imagine dealing with multiple versions of me?”

A visible chill went down Erik’s spine “Hashem Yishmor!” Erik said. “Dealing with one of you is enough.” Holding his face his fingers pitching his nose; beleaguered, muttering to himself: “Shelo neda. shelo neda. shelo neda.”

Charles just patted his husband’s shoulder his telepathy picking up on the many, MANY

“Heavy is the head that wears the crown,”

“Pietro, isn’t time to come home? It’s been eight months,” Erik said

“Dadneto---you made this place, for the dedication and learning of one’s mutation, in all aspects. I don’t want to hurt anyone again. Here I can focus. I need to stay here,”

“To what end, Peter?” Charles said

“I need more time…Every time I look out, I see what you can do. I need to understand what I can. Not just copy what you did or you, Lorna; I need to find my own way.”

“Peter self-isolating isn’t heathy.” Lorna pointed out, “neither is punishing yourself.”

“So? Do you know how my powers work?!” “What do you want me to say?

“This was meant to be a show of what I could. Something I’m proud of. All you can think of is yourselves? Why is this any different?”

A universal language of all humans, rather that be baseline or a mutant: creativity.

Peter just had a creative

Patterns, colors, shapes all rendered down to zeros and ones, pixels really, with no anntiate soul to truly understand for what the image or art was; that no sentinel research could discover and not for a thousand lifetimes or until the sun itself burnout.

Harden steel flowed into water

Revealed inner weakness.

The skill

Stagnation; to be a mutant was to change and want to grow: evolve. The act was a spiritual experience; to connect with those long after you; a refuge to rest from conflict, the wars, the anxious and chaotic of the world and just forget for a moment…transcending into otherworldly of the unknown experience that they had not been to before and into another’s life. To see and to hymn, to connect to all through there’s or not there’s, or through directions that could be held all at once; to draw ire for what it was or was not; to define it delphically.

It was to the very essence, the soul,

Flowed like rain and water with wind blowing against it, sweeping into sheet of music of arm motions; delicate fingers giving subtle nuances; Peter lived with the winds. He could feel it. He could sense it. Every breath an act of defiance.

Every moment of movement was a work of art; form, technique, beautifully kinetic.

Lost in the movement, the moment, he got into something it was all freedom. Winds and waves and everything in between of near and far. Escaping the oppression of perfection. Self- liberation.

The liquid metal, solid for a moment and glass the next, burning and smelting turning as viciously hot and unforgiving, intense as the color of lava; cooling down just as fast into banks of currents of rivers rushing toward to sea to empty.

So um...listen. I need cute dadneto shit right now to distract myself because my mom just died like an hour ago.

Also um...hi

First

Mermay Cherik fic idea for 2025

Pod---this based on the cool fact that I learned from Tumblr that Sharks can reproduce asexually, so Erik after spending so much time alone without a pod, he becomes pregnant with Pietro and Charles finds and helps him to a mangrove nursey and helps him recover by feeding him mouth to mouth Princess mononoke style

Kelp---Kid! Pietro playing hide and go seek in a kelp forest with his Dadneto and stepdad! Charles

Glass---Teenage! Pietro goes to the beach to pick up sea glass for his Dadneto, which makes his Dadneto angry born of worry that he would so such a thing---believing Shaw got him or something or other, ending in a hug

Midnight and migration--- Erik and Charles go up to the surface to study the stars so Pietro can learn the routes for his first migration

This is a rough draft of Beyond the Fallen Dark Moon that you can read. Its not done yet.

It was a world Pietro had not seen. Frozen ice islands fallen off the land in thunderous uproar, pushed off the contienant shelf, craving out the land leaving behind boulders, lakes, tearing through high mountain. To where the currents took them. Beyond what he knew. Kept between the two across the outer islands of ice beyond the tip of twin

The warmth from the ball of fire becoming a night never ending

To where

Weaning sun.

 Erik kept his trident by close to his body. His eyes () They stopped on occusion, Erik used his triadent and dug out a window into ice, loosen by  the tides, into a deadly above world that could freeze

If they stayed too long. Before freezing over, forcing them to coutinte on, navigaiting delosute

Weaving

Many migrated away

Whole mountain ranges of ice towered above them. Shifting in moans, crackling, chirping and wooping emiaited. Sharp clicks, and booms.  Songs flowing downward in carvens of painted layerd obrea blues. Shattering light. As so below as so above, Sweeping winds carrying with a stampede of snow racing across the frozen land trapped by the many moons of darkness, light was all but fleeting and gone away not to be seen until the breaking of the ice during the time of sun and moon helding hands regarding each other with equal measure flirting before growing apart again and leaving to go back to their unknowing partners. Yearned for each other. The Great Night. Charles told him during their lessons.

Highly concrreated salt water seemingly invisible vented out from the ice above freezing the

Their hands reaching down to touch the sea floor. The touch of the death. It was a cold, that Pietro hadn’t know existed. Spreading

Bringing with it sharp spears of ice

Seastars and those dewling on the floor fleeing for their lives

Spreading like icy veins invesiting the lower grounds

Wreaking havoc and despair

Taking with it part of the floor, trapped sea stars who were most unforitnaiute to be wound up caught, stuck to the ceiling of ice.

Heaving walrus, sunbathing in huddles, molting off old parasite laden fur. The clicks of seal war anthem clashing over breathing holes and mates for the coming of spring.

Of twilight dark

Ice crystal trees.

Breath out

Pietro thought they stopped little to rise and greet the

Forgotten gods in the deepest dark, unfelt by lights touch, in caverns old. In worlds unseen lurking…***

Moons of darkness.

Their tails swimming their scales like rain, shimmering as they danced together in sea above, circing their kingdom, protecting

Breathing holes

Imprisoned

Lavender

“We are paying respects to a long-forgotten god. It was said

It’s a prilage not taken by many any more, The tradition fell out of favor for many pods.

“It was a remainding.” Erik said.

“But why are we here?”

“Because you need to see with your own eyes.”

I hope this helps!

[mystarypi-astronomy]

This is the Eight Burst Nebula! 🌈🌈🌈

The bright white dwarf at the center of this planetary nebula results in this rainbow glow from its intense ultraviolet radiation. The beautiful structure of this nebula is known to arise from the death of a Sun-like star, but its asymmetry draws questions to this day! 💖💖💖

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on December 27th, 2021 at 05:03 UTC. 

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The Southern Ring Nebula This photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures NGC 3132, which is nicknamed either the Southern Ring Nebula or the “Eight-Burst” nebula. It is located about 2000 light years from Earth and is visible to amateur astronomers.

This is a planetary nebula. As required in all posts about planetary nebulas, I should first note that a planetary nebula has nothing to do with planets. Planetary nebulas form around stars as they are dying, they’re made of gas and dust shed off the star’s outer layers. The name has been passed down from early astronomy when astronomers instead mistook these layers for places where planets were forming. See the little star? This is a binary system, and that star is the one that is at the end of its life. It has burned through most of its fuel and is shedding off its outer layers. The larger star is still active, putting out energy that is lighting up the dust cloud and blowing out a stellar wind that is spreading out the gas cloud into this ring. The different colors represent gas that has reached different temperatures due to that star. One of the most interesting features of this nebula is the pair of stringers of dust that seem to cross-cut this nebula, going through the center of the ring. Scientists working to understand this nebula recently suggested that the larger star is one of a handful of stars that is putting out a jet of dust and gas. While a number of stars, including ones associated with planetary nebulas do this, these dust trails curve through the nebula, suggesting that the jets might not be fixed along the poles of the star. Instead, the position of the jets may be wobbling like a top about to fall over, making this larger star a rare case of a star with “Precessing Jets” (precession is that top-like spinning motion) -JBB Image credit: Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA/ESA) Reference: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936845 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/335/4/1100/962887

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NGC 2132 - Eight Burst Nebula

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The Southern Ring Nebula, NGC 3132 // Sergei

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NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula

Credits: Hubble Heritage Team, AURA, STScI, NASA

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NGC 3132, Eight-Burst Nebula

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WHY IS JWST SO SPECIAL??

Blog# 213

Wednesday, July 27th, 2022

Welcome back,

On 12 July, the first set of full-resolution science images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was released. This set included astonishingly sharp pictures of the Carina Nebula, the Eight-Burst Nebula, a group of galaxies called Stephan’s Quintet and a galaxy cluster stretching the light of the objects behind it, as well as an analysis of the composition of an exoplanet named WASP-96b.

Here’s everything you need to know about the telescope that took these pictures and what it may be able to reveal next.

What is so special about these images? Didn’t we have the Hubble Space Telescope before JWST?

We did and do have Hubble, which produces so many gorgeous images of space. But JWST is way bigger, so its pictures are more detailed. It also observes in different wavelengths than Hubble, which allows it to see things – particularly super distant things – that Hubble can’t.

How close to the edge of the observable universe will JWST be able to see? I’ve seen 13.5 billion light years quoted – that seems very close to the age of the universe at about 13.8 billion years.  

JWST should be able to see between 100 and 250 million years after the big bang! But while that is up to about 13.7 billion years ago, it’s not 13.7 billion light years away – it is much further than that, because of the expansion of the universe.

Will JWST study supermassive black holes? Can it produce an image similar to the one from the Event Horizon Telescope?

JWST can’t make an image of a supermassive black hole like the Event Horizon Telescope did – that’s a different kind of telescope – but it will study them. In fact, the picture of Stephan’s Quintet that was just released is providing some interesting information on one already.

Is it possible for gravitational lensing [like that seen in JWST’s first deep-field image] to be strong enough to see yourself? Like, light does a U-turn?

Yes! Black holes can have a feature called a photon sphere, where gravity’s pull is so strong that light orbits the black hole. So if you aim a light just outside the photon sphere you could, in theory, see that light come around the other side of the black hole.

If JWST can see 13.5 billion years back, could we one day make a telescope that can “see” further than the beginning of time?

I wish! Unfortunately, there’s a fundamental limit to how far back we can see, because up until a little less than 380,000 years after the big bang, the universe was completely filled with hot plasma and was therefore opaque.

Can we see further back than 380,000 years after the big bang with gravitational waves detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) or the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)?

Love this question! Unfortunately, the answer is no, because gravitational waves come from the motion of masses, and there just weren’t any structures big enough to create measurable gravitational waves until about 100 million years after the big bang.

With the data and imagery collected, is it possible (or even probable) that scientists will revise the currently accepted age of the universe to be much much older than a mere 13.7 billion years?

It is possible that the data from JWST will cause us to revise the age of the universe based on new measurements of its expansion, but if so, it will probably go down rather than up. 

Was there anything unexpected about the spectra of the galaxy and exoplanet obtained so far?

I don’t think there was anything particularly shocking in the data that’s come down so far. The images are all of systems that are already very well studied, but we just have far more detail now than ever before. So, we are seeing new things, but I don’t think those are very unexpected.

Why did the JWST crew choose WASP-96b as the first exoplanet to analyse the composition of? What was special about it?

What’s special about WASP-96b is that it isn’t cloudy – the new spectrum shows some evidence of clouds and haze, but not much. That’s good because it allows the starlight to shine right through the atmosphere and for us to analyse it without being blocked by lots of clouds.

How will astronomers decide what to take a picture of [with JWST] next?

The first year of science has actually already been planned out. Researchers made more than 1000 proposals for what to observe, and they were selected by panels of scientists. 

Originally published on www.newscientist.com

COMING UP!!

(Saturday, July 30th, 2022)

“WHAT IS INSIDE THE BLACK HOLE??”

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This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.

The Southern Ring Nebula, also called the "Eight-Burst," is 2,000 light-years away from Earth. This large planetary nebula includes an expanding cloud of gas around a dying star.

This side-by-side comparison shows observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and mid-infrared light, at right, from NASA’s Webb Telescope.

Today, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, in a new light. This enormous mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The information from Webb provides new insights into how galactic interactions may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe.

This compact galaxy group, first discovered in 1787, is located 290 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Four of the five galaxies in the group "are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters," according to a NASA statement.

Mark McCaughrean, the senior adviser for science and exploration at the European Space Agency, said the image shows the view from our own Milky Way to far-away galaxies — even showing the creation of new stars.

When the near-infared view is stripped away from the image, mostly gas and dust is seen. But it revealed an active black hole, according to ESA astronomer Giovanna Giardino.

“We cannot see the black hole itself, but we see the material swirling around being swallowed,” Giardino said.