NASA Finds Over 2,000 Young Star Candidates In North American Nebula 34
An anonymous reader writes "A NASA team has identified about 2,100 young star candidates in a region called the North American Nebula. The nebula is named after its resemblance to the North American continent in visible light. There were only about 200 young stars known before. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has taken images of the new stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults."
Damn... (Score:2, Funny)
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Oh, hang on - price inflation. 5 simultaneously. 4, if they're good looking. 3, if you're doing video too.
OK, for a barely-legal, absolutely-anything-goes good-looking girl, who provides her own camera and someone to run the
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I wonder if these guys ever think about the implications of having to pay someone ridiculous sums of money for sex... I'm pretty sure I know what the ladies are thinking... "No, No, sweety, I always laugh when I'm horny... Oh, you're so BIG!".
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So far NASA has resisted naming satellite or observatories after politicians. Even the James Webb Space Telescope is named after an administrator, not a politician. I sometimes wonder when someone is going to make a serious proposal to name something in space after Reagan.
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I sometimes wonder when someone is going to make a serious proposal to name something in space after Reagan.
They may be saving it for a new NEO, something along the lines of the RR Impactor...
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Spitzer? Really? You go into politics, get caught hitting some high priced nooky, and you get a fucking space telescope? And if it was named for some other Spitzer, well that person should be really pissed at the aforementioned asshat...
How about you research before you verbally prematurely ejaculate all over the screen?
America not American (Score:3, Informative)
It's actually North America Nebula.
Tell that to NASA (Score:3)
"New View of Family Life in the North American Nebula" [nasa.gov]
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Seems the American astronomers still haven't got over the demotion of Pluto and are desperately trying to compensate :)
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It's actually North America Nebula.
Obviously, some North American believes: "All of this Nebula belongs to me!" Finders keepers.
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Yep, the winner gets to go develop a planetary system with life, the losers's lives go into a black hole of oblivion :)
According to the factoid I just made up... I have been told Sol is a past winner, with a group of leeches on the 3rd planet away... it's tired of this unwanted attention and might go nova on their ass, show them how pissed it get.. like any respectable star
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a region called the North American Nebula
Seriously now?
Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] is your friend. Spoiler: it's named for its shape.
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Spoiler? It's written right in the summary!
Link to source (Score:5, Informative)
Why print news about NASA [nasa.gov] missions as reported by somebody else?
Pretty picture here [nasa.gov]
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This is BS!!! (Score:2)
Just when NIH is getting the largest cut in history, $2B, NASA has money to finance 2000 young sta.... oh, wait.
First round auditions start next week (Score:1)
... then they'll be narrowed down to just 100 star candidates.
cancelling my hawaii trip (Score:2)
not a astornomy hater by any stretch, but this sure changed my weekend plans! :-)
resembling what? (Score:2)
This is one of the stuff that least resembles the stuff it's named after and supposed to be resembling.
The Horse Head nebula looks so much more like a horse head; like a cute little horse chess piece.
Maybe an often seen product of sarcasm, given to illustrate how much it actually does not resemble the anticipated properties? Like, f.i. "The Sky Mountain" in Denmark, or "The Pacific Ocean"?
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The images in TFA are in infrared, so they not resemble North America at all, in visible light, depending on how the picture was taken, there can be a very good resemblance.
As for the horse head nebula, it looks more like a dog head, IMHO
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The Pacific Ocean was named by people who had just passed through the Straight of Magellan.
It (the Pacific) was (by comparison) "pacific", i.e. "peaceful".
Then again, from what I've heard from people who've sailed there, just about ANYTHING is "pacific" compared to sailing through the Straights of Magellan.
This is very cool.. (Score:1)