We world are wired to see shapes and patterns in haphazardness , which make us see face on Mars and everything frombutterfliestoCaliforniain faraway nebulae . Well , this is the holiday version of that phenomenon … and it ’s pretty wonderfully ridiculous .
The Butterfly Nebula has the largest wingspread in the macrocosm
California has now become a nebula a thousand light - years from dry land
With all due deference to kid in the Midwest , I ’m going to go onwards and say whizz - constitute area Sharpless 2 - 106 has made the best Baron Snow of Leicester angel I ’ll see all twelvemonth . This nebula has a gigantic wiz at its centerfield , dozens of fourth dimension more monumental than our Sun . Instead of flopping its arms in fresh snow , the wiz has created its wings by super - heating the gas around it , giving it that impressive blue color .
snuggle between the two gas clouds , there are dark bands of gas and rubble . They might one Clarence Shepard Day Jr. form a planetary system around the star , but mighty now they simply look like the figure at the kernel of the wings , which for me push this fancy into uncanny territory . I ’d say this is the most festive thing I ’ve see in this entire holiday time of year … but then , I do live in Los Angeles .
Hubble Heritage TeamviaScienceNOW .
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