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LTC Stephen F.
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Belated thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Sunday, April 25, 2021 entitled "Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula."

I hope and pray that each of are sleeping well and that you will be blessed with restful sleep.
The wonders of astro-photography and post processing which enables gas to be captured in multi-color spectro-photography.
Not to mention the wonderful naming conventions for nebula and nebulae

Image: Planetary Nebula Mz3 - The Ant Nebula - Image Credit - R. Sahai (JPL) et al., Hubble Heritage Team, ESA, NASA

APOD Background
"Explanation: Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round? Clues might include the high 1000-kilometer per second speed of the expelled gas, the light-year long length of the structure, and the magnetism of the star featured here at the nebula's center. One possible answer is that Mz3 is hiding a second, dimmer star that orbits close in to the bright star. A competing hypothesis holds that the central star's own spin and magnetic field are channeling the gas. Since the central star appears to be so similar to our own Sun, astronomers hope that increased understanding of the history of this giant space ant can provide useful insight into the likely future of our own Sun and Earth."

The Ant Song · Steve Apirana
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I hope and pray that each of are sleeping well and that you will be blessed with restful sleep.
Them song for the denizens of the Ant Neblua :-)

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CWO3 Dennis M.
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If you could X-ray an ant and blow it up the image, I think this is what it would look like. I immediately saw the ant.
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