APOD: 25th October, 2009

[Octane (Humayun)]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091025.html

Goodness gracious.

Regards,
Humayun

[MrB (Simon)]

WOW

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

oh my.
all those filaments

[DavidU (Dave)]

Holy smoke !

[Robh (Rob)]

So that's what it looks like close up. Fascinating!
If the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant, spans 10 light years that makes its actual size much larger than the Dumbbell (~3 ly) or Helix Nebulas (~5 ly), both of which are planetary nebulae. I suppose one would expect this.

Regards, Rob.

[TrevorW]

Amazing image well prcoessed

[Gallifreyboy]

Thanks for the link,
new desktop background

[mozzie (Peter)]

holly smokes
mozzie

[Jen]

wow what a beautiful pic

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Amazing to think of the destructive power which gave birth (if you could put it that way) to such beauty.

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Whoa that is seriously a nice image of M1. Wow. Amazing detail of all those tendrils.

Dave

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Amazing structure and detail in the shot, so don't get me wrong, but does it look a little clipped, too contrasty, and/or oversharpened? Sorry, devil's advocate

EDIT: I take it back. Just saw the bigger version - must've been the smaller/compressed one that didn't look right.

[Ric]

Spectacular to say the least.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Click on the piccie and then expand the result....it's even better!!!!