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#1 2004-11-05 14:35:38

Palomar
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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021205.html]Duck or Helmet?

*To me it looks like a duck.  Head and bill towards the front, dipped down slightly.  Definitely upswept "tail feathers" behind the head/bill. 

(Thor's helmet...yeah, right).

Interesting info in caption too.

--Cindy

We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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#2 2004-11-05 15:47:16

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

It looks like a snail.

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#3 2004-11-05 19:14:45

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

I see the snail, a halmet is not very interesting but I can't see the duck.

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#4 2004-11-06 08:09:41

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

I see a baby's head, facing left, button nose, eyes closed - perhaps suckling at its mother's breast. ( I admit there's not much of the mother there; more inference than evidence! )
    Maybe you have to be a parent to see it.
                                             smile

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#5 2004-11-06 11:53:44

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

perhaps suckling at its mother's breast

Well if something is doing that then they have their hands on both of them. Is Froid here? Maybe it is a baby holding a teddy bear. I get the baby because of the relative size of the head and thinness of the arms. It is either that or an anorexic midget. I think more likely it is an ultrasound of a fetus.

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#6 2004-11-07 17:43:29

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

I see a baby...an alien baby!  It has three eyes, a one nostril nose, and a huge 'suck your brains out' mouth.

What have you guys been smoking?  Or maybe you are aliens.

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#7 2004-11-07 17:49:30

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

I see a baby...an alien baby!  It has three eyes, a one nostril nose, and a huge 'suck your brains out' mouth.

What have you guys been smoking?  Or maybe you are aliens.

LOL!!!!!  :laugh:

To each their own, and I guess some folks here have a better imagination than I.  :-\  Replies interesting so far. 

I've tried seeing the baby...no luck. 

--Cindy

We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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#8 2004-11-07 17:52:15

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

I see a baby...an alien baby!  It has three eyes, a one nostril nose, and a huge 'suck your brains out' mouth.

No you can't see the babies face. The view of the picture is staring at the baby from above but slightly behind and to the side. That is we are looking down at the top of the babies head. The babies arms go somewhat into the picture.

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#9 2004-11-07 18:14:24

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

No you can't see the babies face. The view of the picture is staring at the baby from above but slightly behind and to the side. That is we are looking down at the top of the babies head. The babies arms go somewhat into the picture.

*Ah yes, I see it now!  smile

Shaun definitely has a better eye and grasp on originality than I, apparently.

--Cindy  :up:

We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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#10 2004-11-07 18:22:53

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

*Ah yes, I see it now!

Now where is that duck ?  ???

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#11 2004-11-07 18:49:36

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

*Ah yes, I see it now!

Now where is that duck ?  ???

Earlier I wrote:  Head and bill towards the front, dipped down slightly.  Definitely upswept "tail feathers" behind the head/bill.

*The upper portion of the baby's ear is the undersided curve of the duck's neck (actually it also looks a bit like a swan); the duck's head is dipped down, a glowing bit of amber color makes the "eye," and its bill is beneath that and tucked just slightly away from the viewer.  The head and most of the bill are precisely within a triangle of two bright blue stars and one amber-colored star.  Its back and tailfeathers are the upswept nebulosity in the left-hand side and upper left corner of the pic (looks a bit trifurcated).  The duck is positioned at an angle.

--Cindy

We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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#12 2004-11-07 22:49:31

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Re: Duck or Helmet? - ...this nebula looks like which?

Alien babies?! Can't see the baby's face?!
    You mean there are THREE babies?!!   yikes   tongue   big_smile

    The baby I see has half its face quite visible. Almost all of the nebula makes up its head. There's no body. It's nose and closed eye are easily visible and it's facing left and slightly up.

    Look, you guys just stay where you are and I'll be right over! I'll trace the shape of the baby's face on your monitor.
                                            :;):

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