What Hubble Photo Is This? (Update)
Keith’s 9 March note: Let’s see how many of you pay close attention to all of the photos that NASA releases from Hubble – there have been so many over the past 20+ years. Where is this image from?
Keith’s 10 March update: OK, so I played a trick on some of you when originally posted this yesterday. This is not a Hubble image. It is actually a portion of a photo I took yesterday in the woods near my house.
By an utterly eerie coincidence, this press release came out today …. Astronomers use slime mold model to reveal dark threads of the cosmic web: “A computational approach inspired by the growth patterns of a bright yellow slime mold has enabled a team of astronomers and computer scientists at UC Santa Cruz to trace the filaments of the cosmic web that connects galaxies throughout the universe.”
I am a biologist – who used to work for NASA – and I run the Astrobiology.com website. So I see biological and astronomical pattern similarities pretty much everywhere. I was wondering if others did too. When I looked down into this stream yesterday I was immediately reminded of the Eagle Nebula aka The Pillars of Creation, Based on the responses, it looks like I am not alone. The connections between microscopic life on Earth and the vast structure of the cosmos are obvious. Oh yes, and I watched “Cosmos” on TV last night, so ….
Those look like proto-stars so I will say the Orion Nebula.
A close up section of the Pillars of Creation photo is my without cheating guess.
The colours look wrong for the ‘Pillars of Creation’ in M16 but I’m enough of a casual that one star-forming region looks much the same as another.
M16 and the Pillars of Creation have been imaged by HST more than once, and with different filters. There’s no reason the colors in other images would match those of the well-publicized one.
Going out on a limb and say this is not a Hubble photo at all.
Keith wouldn’t mislead us !
I’m wondering if Hubble took pix of the solar system ?
or maybe this is an early pic, before Hubble got “specs” ?
Damn ! I stand corrected !!
Now we know … Keith could mislead us !
The answer was “this is not a Hubble photo” 😉
Yea, the colors seemed wrong to me. If it had been B&W I probably would have been fooled.
Earth?
Too bright, it would burn out all of its sensors.
Central Park?
Horsehead Nebula
You should have save this for April 1st.
Nice. I should tell one of my cousin about this. One of the things she does is art based on taking scientific images and morphing them into abstract art. She’d probably love the idea of those “biological and astronomical pattern[s]” you found similar.