http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2006/10jul06/Manlises.jpg
Look at that picture. Just look at it! Aside from its breathtaking beauty, it is eerily familiar. Does anyone else notice this similarity?
The horse head nebula! I think its painfully obvious how close these resemble eachother, and i'd like to know if there is some kind of reason for this. Sure nebulas are clouds, but then where is the gravitational pull that is helping shape these interstellar clouds? OH what i wouldn't give to see things from a larger scale.
2006-07-10 19:09:47 · 4 answers · asked by Empty Skies 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
i see a big dog about to wack a pokemon on the head with a head, and in the light cloud in front of the sun, i see a fish, lol- i just have an overactive imagination
2006-07-10 21:37:48 · answer #1 · answered by nat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen that photo... is that Istanbul?
Nebulae aren't "clouds" like we have on earth - they are bits of particulate matter floating in the vacuum of space. Their shapes are mostly dictated by explosive forces or the gravitation of "nearby" objects. Our earthly clouds are water molecules circulating on currents of hot & cold air, and nowhere near the same scale.
We will see similarities because that is what humans do. We call it the "horse head nebula" because we think it looks similar to the head of a horse. We see clouds that look like dinosaurs, Abraham Lincoln, and snails.
2006-07-11 02:20:05 · answer #2 · answered by Petey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Petey is right. Nebulas are not purposely formed like that, it's just a coincidence that humans think that it looks like a head of horse.
2006-07-11 03:12:28 · answer #3 · answered by Eric X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gravitational pull comes from the clouds themselves.
2006-07-11 02:13:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋