He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. - Ecclesiastes 3:11
Bonus picture! Detailed images near the center of the nebula reveal "cometary knots," so called because of their resemblance to comets. Each knot, not incl. the tail, is about the size of a solar system, and is comprised of cold molecular gas surrounded by a shell of ionized gas.
Since it's moving week, you're mostly gettin' pretty pictures from my archive. This is the stirring Helix Nebula, the remnants of an ordinary star that threw off its outer layers thousands of years ago. (Is it just me, or do you get the feeling you're being watched?)
#Psalm19
There are three major types of galaxies: spiral, elliptical, and irregular. Unlike spirals and ellipticals, irregulars don’t have a distinct shape or pattern - no bulge, no spiral arms, just chaos. This is likely a result of gravitational interactions with other galaxies.
... I saw also The Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.
White Aurora ~ Finland
Referred to as and named:
“The hem of His garment”