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There's also a Fried Egg Nebula out there!
'Fried Egg' Nebula Cracks Open Rare Hypergiant Star | Space
The image shows a central yellow hypergiant star surrounded by a huge dusty double shell, making up the egg yolk and white.
'Fried Egg' Nebula Cracks Open Rare Hypergiant Star | Space
The image shows a central yellow hypergiant star surrounded by a huge dusty double shell, making up the egg yolk and white.
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Tonight I'm having breaded fried chicken, tomorrow lamb shanks and then veal tenderloin. Still waiting to see the light after that. 😛
There are believed to be about 20,000 objects called planetary nebulae in the Milky Way Galaxy. 😀
Okay that's another one over my head. But yes, three to be exact. That's the part just below the leg. 🙂
I wonder if there is an "Orchid" Nebula?
Reason I mention this is I was reading the October edition of "Gardener's World". Expert Monty Don said now is the time of year to be trimming the roots of your Orchids. I checked the greenhouse. We are infested with Orchids it seems, which surprised me, since Britain is hardly a Tropical country.
Anyhoo, retrieved sad overgrown plants and examined the proposition. Special transparent pots, special dry lumpy orchid compost. But managed to trim the roots. All Happy Days for the Orchids now, I hope. We await with interest.
If you ever struggle to fill in the section on Job Application forms about hobbies and interests, just say you like growing orchids. Who's going to argue with you? The job goes to the "Orchid Grower" Chap. At least he had a memorable hobby! 😎
Reason I mention this is I was reading the October edition of "Gardener's World". Expert Monty Don said now is the time of year to be trimming the roots of your Orchids. I checked the greenhouse. We are infested with Orchids it seems, which surprised me, since Britain is hardly a Tropical country.
Anyhoo, retrieved sad overgrown plants and examined the proposition. Special transparent pots, special dry lumpy orchid compost. But managed to trim the roots. All Happy Days for the Orchids now, I hope. We await with interest.
If you ever struggle to fill in the section on Job Application forms about hobbies and interests, just say you like growing orchids. Who's going to argue with you? The job goes to the "Orchid Grower" Chap. At least he had a memorable hobby! 😎
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There are so many nebulae out there that the majority have not been named, but simply go by their NGC (New General Catalogue) or other designation.
List of planetary nebulae - Wikipedia
However, the nebula in the attached image deserves to be officially named the Orchid Nebula.
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Thank's Galu, they are beautiful.
Are the colors real ? I mean in the visible spectrum, not from computer processing.
These planetary nebulae are not planets neither galaxies, they are dying or dead stars.
Are the colors real ? I mean in the visible spectrum, not from computer processing.
These planetary nebulae are not planets neither galaxies, they are dying or dead stars.
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Hubble captures broadband red, green and blue light filtered images in addition to a black & white image.
However, it goes further by filtering the extremely narrow bands of frequencies which correspond to the light emitted by elements such as hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur.
Hydrogen can then be assigned the colour green, oxygen the colour blue and sulphur the colour red.
When these assigned colours are added to the original mix, the result is the final highly detailed, and spectacularly coloured, composite image.
The image is not 'naked eye' colour (you might just see one boring overall colour, such as red, that way), but is enhanced to allow us to analyse the structure of the nebula in all its glory. 😎
However, it goes further by filtering the extremely narrow bands of frequencies which correspond to the light emitted by elements such as hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur.
Hydrogen can then be assigned the colour green, oxygen the colour blue and sulphur the colour red.
When these assigned colours are added to the original mix, the result is the final highly detailed, and spectacularly coloured, composite image.
The image is not 'naked eye' colour (you might just see one boring overall colour, such as red, that way), but is enhanced to allow us to analyse the structure of the nebula in all its glory. 😎
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All fore shanks, that's three. Alberta lamb from Canader. Beats that Aussie or N.Z. mutton, tough as nails. They still call it lamb, though.
A trade deal is under negotiation between Great Britain (the part of the UK less Northern Ireland) and New Zealand.
Lamb farmers in GB may then be at a disadvantage since the EU imposed both quotas and tariffs on NZ's lamb exports.
I don't want to bleat on about it and I certainly don't want to get political, but NZ may become GB's only source of lamb shanks!
BAA!
Lamb farmers in GB may then be at a disadvantage since the EU imposed both quotas and tariffs on NZ's lamb exports.
I don't want to bleat on about it and I certainly don't want to get political, but NZ may become GB's only source of lamb shanks!
BAA!
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Humbug! Pity you. Problem is they're also a major producer of wool so I'll bet they first profit from that and then offer the full grown sheep as lamb.
Seems I don't know much about orchids. I put them in the shade because the Sun was scorching them, but let them sit in drip trays to keep them moist. WRONG! They like just a tiny bit of water and an occasional feed. Otherwise the green aerial roots rot. Oh well. 😱
More disasters. I am gathering cheerful plants and bulbs for winter hanging baskets for me and my neighbour. Killed half the pansies by letting them cook in the greenhouse while we wait to get going on this. 😡
Put everything outside now. See how it goes. 🙂
I was trying to make sense of UK animal production. It's complicated. Figures are split between breeding animals and the poor little chaps and girls who are going to the Abattoir. But seems there's about 20M sheep and, not sure here: 5M Cattle and Pigs.
I'd suspect most wool comes from clipping ewes in spring. But people seem to wear a lot of artificial fibres, though I am a woolly pullover and socks man. Wool is dryer and warmer IMO.
Most arable land grows wheat and barley, sweet corn for animal feed, and rapeseed oil and sugar beet. Not much land is used for vegetables relatively. Not even for potatoes.
Bottom line, I thought, was the UK imports about half its food. I'd agree with Disco-Pete, the NZ lamb chops at Iceland grocery store is a bit "chewy". But you don't see lamb much in supermarkets. It's more expensive than beef and pork.
More disasters. I am gathering cheerful plants and bulbs for winter hanging baskets for me and my neighbour. Killed half the pansies by letting them cook in the greenhouse while we wait to get going on this. 😡
Put everything outside now. See how it goes. 🙂
I was trying to make sense of UK animal production. It's complicated. Figures are split between breeding animals and the poor little chaps and girls who are going to the Abattoir. But seems there's about 20M sheep and, not sure here: 5M Cattle and Pigs.
I'd suspect most wool comes from clipping ewes in spring. But people seem to wear a lot of artificial fibres, though I am a woolly pullover and socks man. Wool is dryer and warmer IMO.
Most arable land grows wheat and barley, sweet corn for animal feed, and rapeseed oil and sugar beet. Not much land is used for vegetables relatively. Not even for potatoes.
Bottom line, I thought, was the UK imports about half its food. I'd agree with Disco-Pete, the NZ lamb chops at Iceland grocery store is a bit "chewy". But you don't see lamb much in supermarkets. It's more expensive than beef and pork.
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