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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Spooky Nebula

Just in time for Halloween

I've never seen this nebula before.  APOD's intepretation is a bit different than my own; to me it's 3 ghouls fiendishly frolicking together.

Happy Halloween! 

--Cindy

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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)

Mars_B4_Moon

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Registered: 2006-03-23

Posts: 9,776

Re: Spooky Nebula

'Dear NASA: Half Of Humanity Does Not Do The Halloween Thing'
https://nasawatch.com/culture/dear-nasa … een-thing/

In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort during the long, dark winter.
https://www.history.com/topics/hallowee … -halloween

end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred.

I think Palomar enjoyed the Halloween Traditions, it seems to have been an old tradition Gauls, Scottish, Iberia maybe other Galicia or Celtic peoples, the Greeks were good at maps Keltoi possibly  reached as far east as central Anatolia.

'Frightening!'
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2932