Comments on: Epic tantrum thrown by 30 octillion ton baby

By: Sekhmet

Sekhmet — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:39:58 +0000

that was happening 2,000 years ago… wish we could get (a lot) closer and see what it looks like “now.” te he he

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Shorties: Staggering picture of star in an epic tantrum | ZME Science — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:45:31 +0000

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By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:43:52 +0000

@Messier Tidy Upper:

Eta Carinae, from the image in your name link ( http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060326.html ), appears to have four lobes. Those perpendicular to our point of view are only visibly illuminated near the star, and give the impression of optical distortion rather than presence. That makes sense: again, from our point of view it’s side-lighting, where shadow dominates far more than it does in fore- or back-lighting.

P.S. Great handle.

By: VS

VS — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:28:55 +0000

The starburst effect in the image is ‘orribly tacky.

By: Greg B

Greg B — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:44:00 +0000

@42 Nigel

Thank you good sir, I do love to embiggen my vocabulary. Cromulent indeed!

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:17:34 +0000

#48 Mike: Cool!! For everyone who's a fan of pictures of emission nebulae, here's a great wiki entry, the Sharpless Catalog. It's got some beautiful examples from said catalog.

By: Mike T

Mike T — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:26:42 +0000

Very nice image. I have a fondness for the Sharpless objects, having had the privilege of having Prof. Sharpless as advisor for my undergrad senior thesis.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:48:20 +0000

What if the star in question isn’t the one we see? Look at the bottom light cone– if you follow it up, it seems to go straight to the middle of the cloud. It doesn’t stop at the bright star in the picture. Maybe the star itself is hiding behind gas?

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:10:33 +0000

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By: Serendip

Serendip — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:46:11 +0000

Beautiful, beautiful image. I can almost hear the accompanying space music!

I believe that jb1 in #20 has it right when he says that Phil very likely means enubilate [ http://www.websters-dictionary-online.com/definitions/Enubilate ]

By: mammoth

mammoth — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:24:19 +0000

Stunning… One more thing that caught my eye is a bright red star on the bottom right corner in the picture. That seems more brighter than this. Which star is that ?

By: zaybu

zaybu — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:47:16 +0000

You say, 2000 years ago? Would that mean that when Jesus resurrected, he was actually reborn as a star? Just kiddin’

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:44:36 +0000

To all those puzzling over “ennebulate” -
The BA is a master of neologisms, most of which mean “click the piccy to see a bigger version”. “Ennebulate” because it’s a piccy of a nebula.

It’s all perfectly cromulent.

By: eddi

eddi — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:12:56 +0000

thanks for the interesting (and enthusiastic!) explanation.

this short vid from the hubble site you linked to gives an impression of the 3D structure:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/38/video/a/

endless cool

By: critter42

critter42 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:46:29 +0000

Here is the super big version: http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2011-38-a-full_jpg.jpg – caution, almost 10MB jpg

By: Hamish

Hamish — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:38:16 +0000

I’m with Jason Q – I read it as ‘ennebulate’, to form a nebula.

By: Donald

Donald — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:07:43 +0000

Awesome picture! You say that the star might look offcentre because the bottom parts of the two back lobes are hidden. Might another solution be that we’re not looking at it directly in the plane of the lobes? If our viewpoint is slightly above the plane of the lobes, then the back two would angle away like a V with the star at the point of them. From looking at the picture the two blue clouds do seem to point at the star.

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:45:12 +0000

Googling “ennebulenate” brings up not one but five different BA posts

By: Wombflash Forest

Wombflash Forest — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:27:25 +0000

@33. Jason Q, rotational period? Considerably faster than the Sun, I imagine, though I can’t at this moment put my finger on a specific figure. I keep thinking, that star though would be oblate, almost a disk at that mass and that rotational velocity. And that makes me think that’s got something to do with there being four lobes instead of two.

Would make an interesting subject for a thesis, I’ve no doubt.

By: Djinn

Djinn — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:10:09 +0000

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g264/darkkphoenixx03/HADOUKEN.jpg

I laughed. Space is awesome.

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By: Jason Q

Jason Q — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:21:55 +0000

1) THERE! ARE! FOUR! LOBES! (Yeah, I thought that too…)

2) What’s the rotational period of a star such as our subject that spins “quickly?”

3) I have a fairly large vocabulary (large enough that people sometimes give me crap about it), and I have no effing idea what “ennbulenate” means. Maybe “ennebulanate?” That would work, I guess…