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Old 11-January-2008, 01:17 AM
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Space.com: Big Space Thing Looks Like a Moth

Gee, it's tempting to just let that headline stand on its own...

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A moth-like structure with a 22-billion-mile wingspan is hovering out in space.

This giant is actually a massive cloud of dust surrounding a nearby, young star imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope that has shown astronomers that these dust disks can take on unexpectedly unusual shapes.

Such disks are typically flat, pancake-shaped structures where planets can form. But HD 61005's disk breaks from the norm with a shape dubbed "The Moth". The shape is produced by starlight scattering off the dust.

It is completely unexpected to find a dust disk with this unusual shape," said senior research scientist Dean Hines of the Space Science Institute in Corrales, New Mexico. "We think HD 61005 is plowing through a local patch of higher-density gas in the interstellar medium, causing material within HD 61005's disk to be swept behind the star."
'Nuff said?

NASA news release: Circumstellar Dust Takes Flight in 'The Moth'

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That looks absolutely nothing like a moth to me. If there were 2 "wings" I wouldn't have commented, but this is stretching it. If anything, it looks like a splash.
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That looks absolutely nothing like a moth to me. If there were 2 "wings" I wouldn't have commented, but this is stretching it. If anything, it looks like a splash.
That was my thought. Maybe its a moth splashed onto a giant windshield?
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That was my thought. Maybe its a moth splashed onto a giant windshield?
Well.... it is a splash of red.
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Nah... I just think Swift is on to something. I found this on the web. It looks rather convincing to me.
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Nah... I just think Swift is on to something. I found this on the web. It looks rather convincing to me.
I dunno if it's just me... But clicking your link gives me a blank page Literally, totally blank.
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I dunno if it's just me... But clicking your link gives me a blank page Literally, totally blank.
Me too.

The mole (we always plant a mole) reports that the link was supposed to reference this billboard artwork entitled Splat! by Rachel Renee Stewart:

Splat!
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Have a look at the Emperor Moth... Here

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I liked the disclaimer at the bottom:

No butterflies were harmed in the making of this art.
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The mole (we always plant a mole) reports that the link was supposed to reference this billboard artwork entitled Splat! by Rachel Renee Stewart:
Splat!
Yes; thank you.
The strange thing is, that I tested the link... Someone must be out to get me.
(although there is the remote possibility that some session variable or cookie left the link active)
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