What ever happened to Steve Guttenberg? He used to be all over the place in movies and then he seemed to suddenly disappear.
djm
He flaunted being an alien too much, so the Men In Black finally deported him back to the Crab Nebula.
looks more like a ball of cotton candy. But I guess coccoon nebula sounds more interesting.
Most of the names were given long before there was colour imagery, and with much weaker telescopes than are used toady. With a lot of them, you really have to squint and reduce the image quality to see what first prompted viewers to name things the way they did.
djm