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Pipe Smoker
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An awesome Hubble space telescope image.
https://science.nasa.gov/missi...-catalog/messier-16/


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Awesome pics. Hard to wrap my head around the scale of those.
 
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Seven thousand light years away and 50-70 light years across? Eek

It probably doesn't look like that now, since we're seeing it as it was 7,000 years ago.
 
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The wonders of God’s creation.


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thats the afterbirth of our planet.


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Originally posted by egregore:
Seven thousand light years away and 50-70 light years across? Eek

It probably doesn't look like that now, since we're seeing it as it was 7,000 years ago.

No significant change in appearance over a mere 7,000 year interval.


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