6 Responses to “The (First) Sunday Snog”

1. 1.   ZERO Says:
   November 8th, 2009 at 3:24 pm

   What nebula is that? The Ant nebula?

2. 2.   Sheril Kirshenbaum Says:
   November 8th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

   It’s NGC 6302, a butterfly-shaped nebula just 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation.

3. 3.   Luke Vogel Says:
   November 8th, 2009 at 5:35 pm

   Outstanding, love it, clever too. Nice job

4. 4.   ZERO Says:
   November 9th, 2009 at 9:39 am

   I see! The Butterfly Nebula or Bug Nebula!

5. 5.   Daniel Steinberg Says:
   November 11th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

   The Butterfly Nebula was a star that was once probably 5 times a massive as our sun that is at the end of it’s life. It was taken by the new Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 thanks to the most recent shuttle servicing mission to Hubble. As we see it now, the Butterfly Nebula is over 2 light years across. There is some educational information about it at
   http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/news/archive/2009/03/. You can see many more like it at

   http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/capture/stars/

6. 6.   Introducing The Science of Kissing Gallery | The Intersection | Discover Magazine Says:
   December 6th, 2009 at 10:39 am

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