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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Entry: Dark Nebulae - A87875194
Author: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor - U128652

Fascinating stuff.

GB
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Gnomon - time to move on

Hi GB. Good idea to do an entry on this.

I'd put the Coalsack first, in its own section, since it is visible to the naked eye. The Coalsack was very important in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's science fiction classic 'The Mote in God's Eye'. In this, there was a red supergiant Murcheson's Eye hidden in the Coalsack with a small star known as the Mote orbiting it. There were intelligent aliens living in the planetary system of the Mote.

Most or all of the other dark nebulas are only visible through high powered telescopes. The horse's head is most notable of these but it is really tiny in our sky.

In one of the HHGG books (3rd?) there was a planet called Krikkit which was in a dark nebula. As a result the inhabitants had never seen the stars. When they did, they didn't like them so they decided to eliminate all the stars in the Galaxy other than their own, causing a massive interstellar war.

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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Hi Gnomon smiley - hug

Thanks for reading and your reviewsmiley - ok

I've followed your advice and added your information, and given you an additional research credit. smiley - cake

smiley - cheers

GB
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

This is utterly delightful - informative but also amusing and likely to tickle the imagination.

I've got one request, and it's about the bit you and Gnomon have put in about the Coalsack.

>>The Coalsack was very important in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's sci-fi classic The Mote in God's Eye. In this..<<

Now, I'm pretty syre the 'sci-fi classic' in question is a novel. But there are those dense readers out there, denser even than dark matter...smiley - whistle

Could you say, 'classic sci-fi novel'?




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Florida Sailor All is well with the world

I am sure this is a stupid question, but your opening;

>What is a dark nebula? Basically it is a dense cloud of gas which eclipses the light from background stars...

Seems to imply there are other sorts of nebulas. If there are other types you need to tell us what they are, if not maybe your second sentence should start as 'A nebula is...

F smiley - dolphin S


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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Thanks Dmitrismiley - ok added 'classic sci-fi novel'? smiley - biro

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Hi Florida Sailorsmiley - dolphin

There is no such thing as a stupid question... smiley - winkeye
I have added to the intro, linking to the Nebula Overview entrysmiley - ok

smiley - cheers

GB
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minorvogonpoet

This is fascinating, with lots of lovely pictures! smiley - smiley

I feel I'd like to know more but am put off by that word 'enigmatic'...


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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Thanks mvpsmiley - ok

I like that there's mystery surrounding these nebulae. I'm glad to bring their enigma to the attention of otherssmiley - biggrin

GB
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Icy North

(arriving fashionably late)

Nice entry smiley - ok

I know you say these are a bit of a mystery, but the entry would benefit from a bit more information on what these nebulae consist of, where they come from and how they dissipate. How quickly do they change shape? Is the Horsehead Nebula still recognisable as a horse today, for example?

If no-one's agreed on the science, then maybe quote a couple of possible theories (I'm sure there must be theories!)

Finally, you should say that 'Life The Universe And Everything' is a novel by Douglas Adams.

smiley - cheers Icy


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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

I've added the author but I haven't been able to get back to this as yet. All hell has broken loose in my RL and I feel like I am being spaghettified. If that is even a word... if not, I just invented it.

I'll post again when I have updated the entry with your comment Icy, and thankssmiley - ok

GB
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Updatedsmiley - biro

GB
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Post 12

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Any other comments? smiley - smiley

GB
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Gnomon - time to move on

It looks good, GB. Just three tiny things:

can be seen by naked eye -->
can be seen by the naked eye

It should really "Australian Aboriginals", because the original people of any country are called the aboriginals.

The words "to the" should be in lowercase in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".



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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

smiley - cheersThanks very much Gnomon, all tweaks fixedsmiley - biro

smiley - ta

GB
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SashaQ - happysad

I see I bookmarked this, but hadn't yet read it, so I'm reading it now smiley - biggrin

"a kind of creeping tentacle of nothingness" - superbly evocative phrase...

"the head of Dinewan the emu, Australia's largest native bird, whose body encompasses the arm of the Milky Way."

I can't quite visualise this. I think it needs tweaking as I presume Australia's largest bird is the emu, not Dinewan, but I wonder what it means that Dinewan's body encompasses the arm of the Milky Way... Is it that the blackness of space is Dinewan, and we can see its head because that is in front of the Milky Way?

Fantastic linkage in this Entry - I've admired the Horsehead Nebula ever since its image appeared on the back of mini cereal packets in the 1990s and I didn't know it was a dark nebula, so I've learned about that, and also about Williamina Fleming too smiley - oksmiley - oksmiley - ok


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SashaQ - happysad

smiley - ok Excellent tweak smiley - chick


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Bluebottle

smiley - applauseWell done GB – you're definitely writing your own guide to the smiley - galaxy

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Icy North

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SashaQ - happysad

Congratulations! smiley - bubblysmiley - starsmiley - galaxy


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