Posted on Aug 15, 2020
APOD: 2020 August 14 – NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula
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Good afternoon, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) two-fer starts off with yesterday's "NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula." NGC 5189 spans about three light years and lies about 3,000 light years away toward the southern constellation of the Fly (Musca). Musca is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It was one of 12 constellations based on the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, and it first appeared on a celestial globe in 1597/8. If it were left to me, I would call this one "The Cerberus Nebula". But they didn't ask.
APOD: 2020 August 14 – NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula
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Electronic Music New Age The title of the song has been inspired by the nebula photographed by Hubble Space Telescope on the day and month of my birthday
Belated thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Friday August, 14 entitled "NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula"
Image: NGC 5189 - An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula - Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Reprocessing & Copyright - Jesús M. Vargas
Another breathtaking image of a segment of God's creation in the heavens. At the end of this age we who are HIS will each see HIM face-to-face and the new heaven and earth will be more wonderful than we can imagine.
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"Explanation: Why is this nebula so complex? When a star like our Sun is dying, it will cast off its outer layers, usually into a simple overall shape. Sometimes this shape is a sphere, sometimes a double lobe, and sometimes a ring or a helix. In the case of planetary nebula NGC 5189, however, besides an overall "Z" shape (the featured image is flipped horizontally and so appears as an "S"), no such simple structure has emerged. To help find out why, the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has observed NGC 5189 in great detail. Previous findings indicated the existence of multiple epochs of material outflow, including a recent one that created a bright but distorted torus running horizontally across image center. Hubble results appear consistent with a hypothesis that the dying star is part of a binary star system with a precessing symmetry axis. NGC 5189 spans about three light years and lies about 3,000 light years away toward the southern constellation of the Fly (Musca).
Nebula NGC 5189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeE3c5ly7TI
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Image: NGC 5189 - An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula - Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Reprocessing & Copyright - Jesús M. Vargas
Another breathtaking image of a segment of God's creation in the heavens. At the end of this age we who are HIS will each see HIM face-to-face and the new heaven and earth will be more wonderful than we can imagine.
APOD background
"Explanation: Why is this nebula so complex? When a star like our Sun is dying, it will cast off its outer layers, usually into a simple overall shape. Sometimes this shape is a sphere, sometimes a double lobe, and sometimes a ring or a helix. In the case of planetary nebula NGC 5189, however, besides an overall "Z" shape (the featured image is flipped horizontally and so appears as an "S"), no such simple structure has emerged. To help find out why, the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has observed NGC 5189 in great detail. Previous findings indicated the existence of multiple epochs of material outflow, including a recent one that created a bright but distorted torus running horizontally across image center. Hubble results appear consistent with a hypothesis that the dying star is part of a binary star system with a precessing symmetry axis. NGC 5189 spans about three light years and lies about 3,000 light years away toward the southern constellation of the Fly (Musca).
Nebula NGC 5189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeE3c5ly7TI
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