'The Eye of God'

[Disco_owner]

This photo is a very rare one, taken by NASA.

This kind of event occurs once in 3000 years. Called 'The Eye of God.'

It 's definitely worth sharing.

[Ben]

It's a cool image Khos.

This is the Helix Nebula in the constellation of Aquarius. This image was made up from pics taken by the Hubble orbiting telescope and a land-based telescope. It doesn't really have these colours though, it's been artifically coloured.

The science boffins reckon our Sun will eventually go out with a bang like this.

There's more pics of it here, here and here.

Oh, and there's no 3000 year thing about it, it's looked like this for many years, and will do so for many years to come.

[Mick-Kelly]

It's a cool image Khos.

This is the Helix Nebula in the constellation of Aquarius. This image was made up from pics taken by the Hubble orbiting telescope and a land-based telescope. It doesn't really have these colours though, it's been artifically coloured.

The science boffins reckon our Sun will eventually go out with a bang like this.

There's more pics of it here, here and here.

Oh, and there's no 3000 year thing about it, it's looked like this for many years, and will do so for many years to come.

Beat me to it Ben.

[Disco_owner]

It's a cool image Khos.

This is the Helix Nebula in the constellation of Aquarius. This image was made up from pics taken by the Hubble orbiting telescope and a land-based telescope. It doesn't really have these colours though, it's been artifically coloured.

The science boffins reckon our Sun will eventually go out with a bang like this.

There's more pics of it here, here and here.

Oh, and there's no 3000 year thing about it, it's looked like this for many years, and will do so for many years to come.

haha, recieved the Email and Just copied the caption accross onto this post, I sort of gathered that the 3000 thousand year thing was a myth.

[WhiteD3]

haha, recieved the Email and Just copied the caption accross onto this post, I sort of gathered that the 3000 thousand year thing was a myth.

So are the colours, it's the NASA PR dept at work. It's a celestial cloud made to look human though the use of image manipulation.

"However, the image above is not a true "picture" in the technical sense of the word. Rather, it is a computer-generated and enhanced mosaic of nine separate photographs taken by the Hubble telescope and combined with a wider image captured by the National Science Foundation's telescope at Kitt Peak National Optical Astronomy Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. It is a scientific representation of what the nebula might look like.

Despite its resemblance to the human eye in this 2-dimensional image, the Helix Nebula is actually a spiral cylinder more than one trillion kilometers long. Since it points directly toward Earth, it looks like a bubble (or eye) to us, rather than the tube-like structure it really is"