The Trifid Nebula is Stars and Dust

I get a 403 forbidden. Which is a shame, because I like the photos you post (sometimes I print them out & work from them).

:open_mouth: it appears that someone has been into the server settings for the APoD site :open_mouth:

I expect they’ll sort it out in a bit :laughing:

OOh, it’s back and glorious. Definitely nicking that one.

Why the rose, Nano? I don’t get it…

A rose is just a pretty prick.

Denny’s APOD illustrations often remind me of other things, so when they do I like to post pics of whatever they most immediately bring to mind - within such bounds, of course, as a necessary gesture to polite society would call for. So it’s sort of like my own little exercise in free association, only not always all that free. Such self-restraint you should thank me for, BTW. :wink:

This time, the color-enhanced shot of the nebula reminded me most of a cabbage rose. Which I thought was bit trite, perhaps, but then so were my dear grandmother’s chintz slipcovers: they had those suckas printed all over 'em to hell and gone.

Thanks for explaining - now I can see the rose in the original picture.