Comments on: The (First) Sunday Snog http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/11/08/the-sunday-snog-17/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Introducing The Science of Kissing Gallery | The Intersection | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/11/08/the-sunday-snog-17/#comment-41081 Introducing The Science of Kissing Gallery | The Intersection | Discover Magazine Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:39:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=4091#comment-41081 [...] can submit your original photo or artwork for consideration at srkirshenbaum@yahoo.com. The more creative, the [...] [...] can submit your original photo or artwork for consideration at srkirshenbaum@yahoo.com. The more creative, the [...]

]]> By: Daniel Steinberg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/11/08/the-sunday-snog-17/#comment-35623 Daniel Steinberg Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:14:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=4091#comment-35623 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/ 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/

]]> By: ZERO http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/11/08/the-sunday-snog-17/#comment-35428 ZERO Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:39:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=4091#comment-35428 I see! The Butterfly Nebula or Bug Nebula! I see! The Butterfly Nebula or Bug Nebula!

]]> By: Luke Vogel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/11/08/the-sunday-snog-17/#comment-35400 Luke Vogel Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:35:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=4091#comment-35400 Outstanding, love it, clever too. Nice job :) Outstanding, love it, clever too. Nice job :)

]]> By: Sheril Kirshenbaum http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/11/08/the-sunday-snog-17/#comment-35395 Sheril Kirshenbaum Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:03:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=4091#comment-35395 It's NGC 6302, a butterfly-shaped nebula just 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation. It’s NGC 6302, a butterfly-shaped nebula just 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation.

]]> By: ZERO http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/11/08/the-sunday-snog-17/#comment-35393 ZERO Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:24:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=4091#comment-35393 What nebula is that? The Ant nebula? What nebula is that? The Ant nebula?

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