Sunday, May 22, 2005


Any ideas what this is?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's obviously a nebula. Planetary nebula IC 418 to be precise.

A planetary nebula represents the final stage in the evolution of a star similar to our Sun. The star at the center of IC 418 was a red giant a few thousand years ago, but then ejected its outer layers into space to form the nebula, which has now expanded to a diameter of about 0.1 light-year. The stellar remnant at the center is the hot core of the red giant, from which ultraviolet radiation floods out into the surrounding gas, causing it to fluoresce. Over the next several thousand years, the nebula will gradually disperse into space, and then the star will cool and fade away for billions of years as a white dwarf. Our own Sun is expected to undergo a similar fate, but fortunately this will not occur until some 5 billion years from now.

sp1r1tbear said...

Well, thank you very much anon:) It's not really "obvious" unless one knows what one is looking at though:p When Teddy first saw that pic I guessed it was a space easter egg:p *HUGS*

Anonymous said...

looks like a super nova to me

sp1r1tbear said...

erm yes ok..... it would be obvious to most sane people that the easter egg joke was tongue in cheek, but ty for yr input. oh and sorry hen, but you aren't worth my time to trace or fend off you and your clones or anything else pertaining to your clearly odd parasite ass.

seek therapy and medication.

fare well.

Anonymous said...

That looks like my right testicle.

sp1r1tbear said...

lol lefty, lmao :p

sp1r1tbear said...

no no no.... parasite arse is a valid option in the context/insult that it was in. fool.

fuck off maggot, crash. you are not that literate so don't try it. you are just a try-hard.