Astronomy 2000 - thumbnails     to bottom     THE TARANTULA NEBULA IN THE LMC IS LAID BARE AND EXPOSED.
A GIANT LENS IN THE SKY LOOKS DOWN UPON THE CITIZENS OF MAIN STREET  

    ABSTRACT    

Called 'Tarantula' by early astronomers
who saw a tangle of long looping ropes and had
no explanation for it. Recent new powerful telescope images
(circ. 1998/99/2000) have finally cast light on the shape
and feel of this famous object but still not a clear
understanding of how or why. The following Moore
enhancements and magnifications are able to
throw some light on the 'why' factor,
revealing the existence of amazing
coherent dynamic shapes that are
also found in other galaxies
and other star fields.
Read on


     

Other Tarantula images are here.

WARNING - LONG LOAD

As part of an overhauling of flat disk galaxy beliefs to Galaxies in Chaos. See related studies (Angular Momentums in Galaxies)
      PART 1       PART 2       PART 3

Other links

Tarantula tympani resonators
Hubble images highly enhanced
Prism rosettes and shinplasters in arms
Gyroscopic spinners that mold forms and motions

Important jump
Tarantula goodstuff



THE TARANTULA ITSELF



Official image source.   Both the high res (1 meg) and full res (2 meg)
images have been used here for detailed looks at the Tarantula

Original - kind of dark



Let's throw in some light power





From
the above,
we seem to understand
that the nest of eggs like sharp
slices of mica cammed leftward and jutting
forward its downward edges sloped outward, the whole
hot-star figure like the lens of a giant spy-in-the-sky
watching its citizens from high above main street.
Smoke is roping and drifting lazily backwards
into depth indicating the egg nest in
toto is drifting fast forward
toward the camera


Original - very dark - a Hubble zoom of a star cluster in 30 Doradus



One has to argue that the 5 sided star sitting there in the center is
not really a 5 sided star












It is
obvious that
stars are coherently
formed in lineal strings both
arced and straight line. Many of these
can be seen (in the next views via Hubble) to
form on the crests of sheets and curls of matter.
Other stars are seen to be irregular until a
closer look reveals they are formed in
the valleys between material sheets
and folds. As to the tightly
coherent star necklace
rings in the center
of the hot star
package these
are subject
to theory
perhaps
stars
being
sheep herded
in semi stable orbiting
patterns by constant close encounters as
the teeming stars orbit about common points of center

From a Hubble Heritage image. Many more stars appear under high enhancements. The 5 sided star seen in the earlier view above is now seen
as a small globule of stars, teaching you not to take anything for granted








Mismatched
patches of image
create squares where none
exist in the actual viewfield taken
in photo by Hubble. The square patches are
not surprising concidering what the Hubble
image engineers had to work with to
come up with the public release
image. See next the Hubble
original and its tell
tale patchwork
each patch
a different
photo by
Hubble



Patching
irregularities
can also be seen in
this Hubble view of Doradus
which can enhance into
a major show of
forces



An incising
lens (diamond blue)
is centered over Doradus





Note
the small
eaglets poking
up on the lower rim

Tongs
as seen here,
are also seen here in
the Rosette Nebula, probable
cause is guessed as both intense electrical
charges within strong magnetic flux flows (tongs) causing
the bi-horizon red crescents (like two arcs of water winding
in opposite directions from a lawn sprinkler). There may be
a star of neutron or pulsar class hidden in red.
Slide Chandra x-ray telescope forward and
get ready to focus. Tongs are
actually a major form
Nebula can take,
for instance
here






   

   

An odd pair of red arcs on either side of a hot center, in the Doradus 30 clump in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A great deal of useful information is revealed by high levels of image enhancement, expecially in green. Original, nothing to see.

A series of different color enhancement variations, each showing different important subtle details, you get the whole picture by viewing them all in 3D.











Stars in streaks. Cause not known by this reporter. Necklaces made of stars abound everywhere in many forms including tight circles. Oblong stars and globular clusters are also found out there.

And
now
for the
real Tarantula
goodstuff. From this,
next, we get the following











In
closeup,
the eye-in-the-sky
looses its slices of mica
aspect and it is seen that searing
blast of light from hot stars has overburned
the image creating top plates of white which have
little to no 3D stored in the mono image, the
blast of white from the stars does not
differentiate into individual
objects which can often
happen when an all
white area is
seen in
3D.
See
yourself
in a livingroom
in which every object including
the floor walls and furnature has been painted
the same white. Even in nothing but white you will be
able to see objects in 3D with both eyes open, with
but one eye you could not tell except by chance
subtle degrees in shadow where the objects
are in such a modified fiery furnace
all white living room

Look out America - here comes another twister







These
enhancements
fortunately are able
to show that the 'twister' is
not continguous, that is, it does not
writhe and loop around like a snaking rope
tornado rope-a-doping Kansas City.
Here, in the lower left, is
a wall behind which
lurks who knows
what. From
it issues
two different
short ropes, the third
jetting down from the main nest of
eggs is not lineally linked to either short ropes.
In fact the short ropes horizontal across the bottom
are not lengths so much as reaches where matter is
spooting up vertically in small barnacles
along their length, so lineal cause
such as the smoke trails left
by Flash Gorden's rocket
ship movies of the
1930's is not
the cause
of these
lower
ropes

What
is
the
cause?
Sheets seem
to be pushing up
from down below behind
a ring of fire, circles the nest
of eggs in an eliptical band where jets
can be seen contiguously linked to form part of
the ring. The hot jet arcing downward from a thin issue
point above the nest of eggs looks to be bent where it
passes over just to the left of the nest of eggs
and here is it possible to suggest perhaps
powerful gravity or magnetic forces
are torquing the shape of the
vertical hot yellow jet.
How about HEAT







This
Tarantula
image (source
unknown) is interesting
enough to include because
of its nice colors. Remember
that the Tarantula fierce hot
new star field is a consequence
of a collision currently in
progress at LMC





A collage by astronomers of 3 different telescope images of Doradus 30 casts an eerie aspect to the long green strands of the Tarantula. (Source unknown).






The amazing winding long thin arms of the Tarantula Nebula can be explained by concidering a collision in progress between LMC and another galaxy (hereis
called 'Glommer'). Spin vector tugs, pulls, and veers in the tug of war of one set of velocities (galaxy 1) meeting velocities vectored in different directions (galaxy 2), the meeting accelarated by the greater deep space motion of one galaxy relative to the other, can concentrate in local areas of intense dynamic motions, such as the Tarantula Nebula




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