Comments on: A cosmic Halloween gallery: things that go BOO in the night

By: Chuck Messer

Chuck Messer — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:04:57 +0000

That Flaming Skull of Perseus looks familiar. I wonder if they cast him for the stargate scene in 2001?

Chuck

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Halloween Celebration and Astronomy « Journey to the Stars — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:53:48 +0000

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By: sam

sam — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:23:19 +0000

Check out this pic of the California Nebula that was on apod a few days ago. The two blue stars are the eyes then there’s a nose and jagged teeth
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1110/mbz_2011-09_Clouds_Of_Perseus.jpg

By: CR

CR — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:02:24 +0000

Not THAT T’Pau, gang, sorry. I meant the human group who got their name from the Vulcan.
(I forgot to mention yesterday that it was Phil’s photo title “Give a little bit of heart and skull” that kicked the song into my head. Maybe now the reference I made will make more sense to anyone remotely familiar with late 1980′s/early 1990′s pop music.)

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Science Horror Stories « Earth « Science Today: Beyond the Headlines — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:29:16 +0000

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By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:36:45 +0000

@25 Chris: Hahaha. No, you are certainly not. I had the exact same thought.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:10:59 +0000

@23 CR
Am I the only one who thought, “Oh cool a Vulcan song” only to be disappointed that T’Pau is a human group?

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:47:20 +0000

The “black hole skull” and NGC 2467 are my favorites. That last one in particular reminds me of “The Mote in God’s Eye” by Jerry Pournelle, about a a journey to a star that forms one eye in a nebulous (literally) “face” visible from a human colony.

By: CR

CR — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:24:30 +0000

Now I’ve got that old T’Pau song “Heart and Soul” stuck in my head. (I can think if worse things, actually…)
That volcano radar image was by far the creepiest looking thing in this set… it looks like a pic of some three-dimensional sculpture or… or… GASP! an actual face! (Seriously, if I hang that on my front door Halloween, I think it might scare away trick-or-treaters.)

By: DIederick

DIederick — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:38:20 +0000

I think the Soul Nebula looks a lot like Nagilum, the alien that experimented on the Enterprise in the Star Trek TNG episode “Where Silence Has Lease”.