Space Porn: Star-Forming Region IC 471 tickles me pink.
‘Cause it’s pink! Ya see! You can be tickled pink! By this star-forming region. Oh whatever. Now that you mention it, (I know you didn’t mention it) where does that phrase come from? Tickled to the point of blushing? Man — that seems like fucking assault. Or is it battery? Whatever! Whatever!
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When Adam Block sent me a note that he took a photo of the star-forming region IC 417, I was pretty happy. I love nebulae — giant gas clouds, some of which are where stars are born — and Adam is a fine astrophotographer. I knew it would be cool.
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Lovely! And as I looked it over, I thought over how I could write about why the gas is red in some places and blue in others, why there are knotty clumps of stuff floating around, and how the two oppositely-directed streams of material indicate a very young star hidden in the thick soup, still madly gathering material around itself while its strong magnetic field ejected some of that stuff out at high velocity.
