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DARK GOBULES IN IC 2944 |
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Large gobules of dark matter floating in regions of new hot blue giant star birth regions have certain characteristics which formulate their activities into anticipated behaviors.
This means that although each such gobule is unique in its own way - as is the aftermath of a nova or super nova - there are nonetheless common characteristics in dark gobules which can be used to help better understand their existence and evolution in dense star forming regions of a galaxy's local drifts of sundry matter.
Local gobular star forming objects are different than great star forming regions such as found in the Large Magellanic Cloud which most likely (almost certainly) are residuals of collisions. In the case of gobules, something else seems to create their existence since their size is too small to be a collision residue in fact are small enough to merely form one or up to a few new stars if that is the way their eventual evolution happens, being more than two light years across at large yet containing a total mass said to be in the range of 15 or so times the Sun mass in the case of IC 2944.
In galaxy collision-caused great star forming regions, the region can be a substantial portion of the galaxy, for instance the Tarantula cum 30 Doradus new stars field in LMC, and the strawberry in the Triangulum galaxy are easily visible in limited resolution telescopes.
In contrast, a gobule is hardly visible at all (or at least in any detail) without the super powers of a telescope like Hubble.
Being dark, makes it difficult to determine a golule's actual compositions since little to no light radiates from their darkest regions, which means having either a super density which blocks inner light from leaving their surfaces, or low excited matter having low radiance anyway, or else it is matter so thin little is there to radiate. Perhaps there are elements of all three causes in such resulting low luminance and dark cavity appearance of gobules.
In any case, much can be learned in particular looks at certain existing images, in particular when the existing images are enhanced to industrial strength luminosities with abandoned bravado to see what might turn up in the images.
Witness next a Hubble view of dark gobule IC 2944.
Hubble original
At maximum enhancement (Image 1 above), using humble motor skills and simple graphics software, the upper center area has partially filled with a red substance some of which may be a gift from the computer rather than recording of real photons. Nevertheless, the red substance does show that coherent material occupies the darkest area. The question remains as to whether all of the dark areas are non radiant material too dense to allow glow to show through to the surface, or, else, nothing much is in the darkest area, meaning, it is media thin.
THE QUESTION OF BACKLIGHT
Below, it is pointed out that the outer hem edge of the IC 2944 dark cavity is backlit by light from behind, meaning that very bright perhaps very large stars are behind the scene radiating intensely but none of that radiance is making it through the dark cavity to radiate forth into broad daylight, hence it is apparent the dark cavity media is densly opaque to normal frequencies of visible light.
Strong backlight is also seen in the Horsehead nebula, and the Eagle nebula.
TESTING THE PERSECTIVE |
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Next, in rotating the image by 180 degrees to see if there is an optical illusion factor effecting how the real object actually appears, the darkest area still seems a deep insink, and the pillars still drift eerily away to the rear, ie, nothing has changed in optical persepctive. However, broad leaves thrusting forth in the midrift, (jutting up from the darkest area), are more prominently seen to be jutting strongly forward in upthrusts like slabs of ice floe into forespace toward us.
Such upjutting leaves are commonplace, here is one such form of upjutting leaves, in the Orion Nebula.
Here is a third, called 'Chevrons' by astronomers, in Merope.
Upthrusting leaves are self evidentally obvious in the Ngc 2440 nova, where the lips of the leaves have curled edges, rather aptly modelling 'tongues' as seen below in the Horsehead and the Eagle nebulas.
Pillars are a hallmark of star forming regions. Next are a few examples.
Pillar, with canister base, in the Horsehead nebula
Pillars, with canister base, in the Eagle nebula
Larger scale view of pillars, with canister base, in the Eagle nebula
The arc de triumph down the right base is a familiar figure, seen elsewhere in the Rosette nebula, and the 30 Doradus nebula.
Arc de triumph in the Rosette nebula
Arc de triumph in the 30 Doradus nebula
Pillar and eyestalk in the Rosette Nebula. More details are here.
See the cosmic sasquatch called Eagle.
Pillar, with canister base, in the Lagoon nebula.
Pillars, with canister base, in the Trifid nebula
Hubble original
Hubble view of the Trifid nebula shows a blunt stubby pillar (with pronounced long thin eyestalks), and canister base, the cavity in the canister is really blank (dark), maximum exposure to image enhancers (next below) show that nothing was captured radiating from the dark cavity.
A remark is necessary here. These wrinkles at the top of the Hubble Trifid original are an anomaly, if false makeup by the Hubble factory they are unusual because errors like this just do not occur to perplex Hubble image understandings. On the other hand, if a glimpse of something major, for instance ripples in space, it is unfortunate that only a glimpse was captured.
Ripples in the fabrics of space are a major topic in GIC. Click for the GIC gallery of visible gravity wave canditates.
I ran the Internet surf looking for a source for the above image. All fingers, starting at APOD, pointed to Arizona State U but there the search bogged down into political and academic interfaces with no trace of the Trifid image to be found.
An earlier Trifid view posted on APOD shows where the above Trifid pillar view is located, on the lower inside lip of a much larger formation.
Click for enhanced Trifid image large size
Click for original Hubble Trifid image full size
Click for enhanced Trifid pulled back view full size
Click for original Hubble Trifid pulled back view full size
Click for original Hubble IC 2944 image full size
Click for enhanced IC 2944 Image 2 full size
Click for enhanced IC 2944 Image 3 full size
Click for enahnced IC 2944 Image 4 full size
PRE-NUCLEAR STARS ?
Is there such a thing as a super giant dark star. Click on Image 3 (in click list) again and toward the right side in a highlighted window is one of several large round darks, this particular one highlighted in the window, seems particularly round. Perhaps it is a nascent star ready to suddenly coalesce by gravity collapse into a new star suddenly flamed on, releasing a gamma burst in the power of a sudden collapse in pressures significant enough to suddenly ignite its new nuclear engine.
Black dot spheres are seen peppering the inner region of giant spiral galaxy Ngc 1232, within the whirlpool sinkhole rimming the galaxy nuclear core. These dots are in an ESO astronomy mix in which the picture was factored in a way not a normal astronomy standard so questions are necessary as to what the black dots represent.
I do not know the answer, but might, a bit trepidatiously, suggest they are large gravity bodies gathered into a sphere (not an oval or accretion disk) each ready to crash into a tiny spherical nuclear startup initiating flame-on as a new star.
Let's assume this avenue of conjecture works. What you have, in these black dots, is a mighty ball of gas ready to abruptly collapse and be turned into a furnace that is regular star sized, the pre-star ball perhaps many times the size of a normal star at the end of its phases nuclear fuel gone ready to go nova and super nova for its final days drifting toward the edge of eternity. Balls of matter/gas larger than the Oort cloud of comets ring, is this possible?
The fact that the black dots in Ngc 1232 are of different sizes means that some are closer to the camera, and/or each will become a different kind of star such as brown dwarf, normal as is our Sun, giant, super giant, and super giant hot new blue which can go to as much - some astronomers think - as over 300 times the mass of a normal mainstream Sun and are very short lived.
An opaque body 1/20th the radius of a light year, or in diameter about 1/50th the distance between our Sun and the next nearest star, is this big enough to be seen by telescope as a dark dot? The fact of the whole sphere of gas blocking light from behind it makes it appear much larger than is a normal star usually pin point at best except for photon spread which makes all stars no matter where viewed at a galactic distance seem bead sized.
I know that spectrals can tell a great deal about stars, the question is, are these black dot stars, or is their cross sectional radius more in scale with globular clusters. I don't have the kind of astronomy physics to decide these questions on my own and at my age am little interested in going through the learning curve to acquire the needed astronomy physics, unless it comes by chance ready to use.
Someone who knows the longtitudinal length and cross sectional width of the central dark band in the nuclear core of Ngc 1232 will have the astronomy physics needed to determine the sizes of the different black dots, and from there know if they can abruptly collapse into nuclear fired stars, or are globular cluster size, or in between. See what I mean about being in the dark? I know the black dots are there. I do not know what they are or what they are telling us about a galaxy like Ngc 1232. But am interested and curious.
One clue to be noticed is a larger optically hot object in the upper left with overbright center and blacked out fill area, (see orange Ngc 1232 image above), this might be an object too bright for the telescope's delicate recording of the core kernal itself so was digitally blacked out so that it's bright light would not interfer with the image's delicate details, in which case all of the black dots are merely bright objects such as globular clusters, blacked out to remove their light from spoiling the image's dimmer more intricate details, but then, so many globular clusters so near the core is very unheard of, apparently. So, are the black dots peppering the Ngc 1232 image massive stars not yet turned on in fusion.
If any of this is correct, then score one for the amateur's intuitive investigative abilities (a moi). If none is correct, an answer would be nice.
A round dark dot in an image of Orion has both a suspicious origin, and perhaps an intremely interesting existence. Suspicious is the image is scanned from a magazine so the dot may be merely a speck of printer's plate cleaning fluid. Or, it might be a real object, a dark dot swollen proto star made of matter and gas gathered into a sphere ready to collapse and flame on as a star, at the moment a black dot outlined by Rigel's mighty coronal blaze from behind.
Mysterious dark dot illuminated from behind by Rigel
On the other hand, what if it is a dark star, or a planet, silhouetted against the glare of nearby giant Rigel. If a large planet, or small dark star, it being revealed by its silhouette blocking light from behind means an obvious way of spotting similar objects in the vacinities of super bright stars.
A dark dot is seen near a proplyd in Orion.
Proplyd image with dark dot.
3D reveals something of great significance - the proplyd is gently drifting foreward at the forend of a soft swath (brown colored), curving back to the left into haze.
It means the proplyd is migrating forward on a gentle curve on its own, being propelled by who knows what, including perhaps an initial ejecta boost from a source hidden behind the scenes, the fact that the proplyd's path is curving suggests the proplyd may be in process of being gravitationally dragged back toward a strong gravitational attractor lurking behind the scenes.
Or, else, proplyds like this can drift lazy crazy on their own through hill and veil, seeking desitinations only they can tell at the moment.
Hubble site for proplyds in Orion.
INTERPRETATIONS |
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Large gobules present a different class of animal entirely.
Given a completely different reason for interpretation hence enhancements, instead of a floating globule which could have become a star - now being blasted apart by intense ultra violet radiations from nearby large new stars, as is the official view upon release of the Hubble image and is the interpretation of the release values of the image - in view of common characteristics such as pillars and canister bases, such gobules can now be regarded as a generatal condition of basic shape, casting a very different view of such objects.
For one thing, as already pointed out further above, there are giant pillars in IC 2944 more than eerily like the pillars of the Eagle Nebula, in fact, the pillars of IC 2944 look more or less of same kind as the Eagle pillars, while modelling the outline of the snaking pillar tucked inside the Lagoon nebula.
In fact, the IC 2944 pillars have a canister foundation exactly as like the Eagle pillars except in the case of IC 2944 the canister has broken open, witness the jagged edging around the upper collar hemming the interior, as if ripped open, and how closely the jagged outline of the collar matches the upper hem of the lower half. A tubor root broken open is not an improper analogy.
A better analogy is a spook from a halloween movie with its head ripped off but still attached, except macabre and evilish this nebula is not, it is a dynamic active self contained energy form, which happens to have been smashed open by some powerful force not immediately self evident in the aftermath of the rending encounter.
A push by one mass density again the head end of the other could account for the pillar and foundation to be broken open.
More likely, a push from behind in the middle by a faster moving density (which is probably still pushing at a speed faster than any forward drift motion of the pillars, would break the object open in the middle, the fact of the push being from behind exposing the open break toward us, the opening break still expanding as the push from behind continues and the distance end of the upper right pillars moves farther and farther away from the midrift rend.
BACKLIGHT
Due to the bright degree of backlight seen in the above IC 2944 enahcements, seen most apparantly as a white rim edging the lower hem, it is possible the pushing force causing the rend is a clump of giant new hot blue stars behind, not seen being blocked by the object, but, if moving as a star clump toward us (at a higher velocity than the object) and blasting out fierce forces in UV rays, both driving forces targeted in maximum concentration there behind, at the object's midrift, this could provide a concept for a driving force sufficent to snap the object open.
Whatever the cause, there is credibility this object was a once upon a time single object with pillars, breaking in two, the canister base canterleavering away from the pillars end.
The Horsehead nebula, and the Eagle nebula, are both tubular formations, with pillar(s) at one end and a canister base at the other. In the case of the Horsehead nebula the pillar is only one, known, of course, as the horsehead.
The Horsehead and Eagle are both open irregular tubulars with exposed interior similar to the hood of a cobra, whereas the Lagoon and Trifid nebulas have tubes more smoothly rounded, like the snake's body. IC 2944 is likewise tubular.
HOMING IN ON A DEFINITION
Here is another floating pillar, seen in the IC 2944 scene (at lower left), this one also with what seems to be a basin cavity in the canister base, and a curling tongue at the far end of the away-facing pillar. This gobule is covered with a faint haze and may be further indepth into the deep field, so perhaps it is larger than its scale suggests when comparing it to the main Thackery Globule.
Stereo indicates the smaller pillar (lower left) is drifting further back in deepfield, in fact it is drifting in a band of sundry matter which crosses the lower range of the field. The deepfield stereo views are made from a Hubble black and white boldly enhanced, plus the enhanced blk&wht then also increased in two different rose color tones which improve stereo depth perception when viewed in overlays.
Click for Hubble original blk&wht
Click for enhanced blk&wht full size
Click for enhanced pale rose full size
Click for enhanced bright rose full size
INTRINSIC POLARITY?
Because all of the pillars shown on this page are polarity poled, that is, a long pillar extends to length on one axis, and the opening of a cavity basin is at a right angle alignment in the canister base in appositive to the vector of the pillar, it suggests some strong force is molding the structural dynamics of the whole object, not just pillar, or base, but both together as one single bi-polar coherent object.
What are the possibilities that something stronger than a neutron star, something like a small black hole, is the principle formula driver for making these gobules. It may be the gobule is the final end stage of a massive supernova such as is currently forming the Crab nebula, but, since each supernova is so basically different in configuration and outform, something more coherent, such as a small black hole of more or less uniform size, may be what is formulating these globules which are floating around so eerily on their own.
Inside each, may be an engine, in the form of a small black hole, and what we are seeing as a floating gobule is not unravelled stars but star material wrapped in condensation around the core motor revealing its fundamental shape revealed by its specific force fields which have a repeatable blueprint. Its shape is as well described as in any, in the embodiment of the smaller floating pillar and canister base, shown in the set of three enhancements immediately above.
Obviously, this is all sheer speculation in the above three paragraphs.
However, the fact that golules and pillars are of similar coherent construction, and also that (in IC 2944) a second pillar with cavity basin and canister base is floating around in the same region as a near neighbor to the other, makes me think, no, realize, how here we are talking a constant shape of a therefore tangible object, since the same basic shape is seen in the Eagle nebula, the Lagoon nebula, and the Horsehead, as well as twice in IC 2944. I am going to go with 'gobule black holes' as a keyword for these objects.
Notice how I have avoided the use of the word 'globular', it is because the word is ambiguously in use for several different things, whereas gobule as I have used it refers to only one kind of object.
I do not mean to infer or insist that 'my' word gets used. All I ask is that my use of the word 'gobule' is acceptable in the use to which I have given it, in this industrial strength investigative report code named Dark Gobules.
GIANT 'ELEPHANT TRUNK' PILLAR |
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This pillar, known as the 'Elephant Trunk' nebula, is profiled here.
TELLTALE STAR TRAILS |
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Take a quick look at this Eso view of the Eagle nebula and form an opinion.
The seeming trail of stars heading north/east may in fact be a trail of stars, indicating that an irregular pillar in this formation is drifting forward to the south/west, sucking itself out of the upper right area and dragging a trail of stars, but, enhancements viewed in stereo (by overlaying two images together by eyesight) do not necessarily support this idea.
Stereo placement of the streaking and curving star trails in the north/east quadrant of the frame suggests some other powerful force is acting in the upper right region to sheepherd the myriad stars into separate coherent formulas not necessarily related to the Eagle pillars.
Enhancement attempts to explore this possibility lead to the following images.
Segment from ESO original
In fact, it looks like something earlier on has moved upward from the current position of the end of a pillar, and plowed into the depth of the star field, leaving a percussive cavity made of stars where the mysterious source plowed into the deep field spinning the stars into gravity shock wave patterns which are coherently parallel in lineally curving telltale signatures, the sweep up from the south/west vectored at right angles to the central percussive zone in the north/east.
The whole central percussive area seems to be composed of irregular cell walls some in bubbles protuding this way toward the camera.
HUBBLE ACS DEFINATIVE IMAGE OF THE CONE NEBULA AND PILLAR
New Hubble ACS image showing horn (cavity opening) at base.
All previous images of the Cone pillar have been abruptly eclipsed by the new Hubble ACS camera which shows in bright light a nest of eggs at the top of the pillar, and cannister (horn) jutting at right angles from the side of the pillar at its base.
GATHERING TOGETHER SOME LOOSE ENDS |
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During the course of the developement of this report, more Eagle nebula enhancements were spat out of the lets-explore-hollywood realm, too good to throw away, too many to plug the page, I have stuck them here at the end. Enjoy.
Next is a photoshoot designed to see what stars in the Eagle area are glowing in infra red, and the photoshoot did see red radiating stars not visible in optical (visible) frequencies, compare the industrial strength enhancement with the original to see how many red stars the photoshoot captured, plus, fringe benefits, for instance a flaring circular pie plate in the upper right of the frame.
Razzmatazzed with an avante guard look, these enhancements reveal plenty.
Eso original
Click for enhanced Image full size
Click for enhanced Image full size
Click for enhanced Image full size
Click for original Image full size (dim and dark)
Click for original Image full size (dim and dark)
Click for original Image full size (dim and dark)
CHOSEN CRITERIA
I have to freely admit to liking my Eagle images a lot more than the originals. Granted the glow area at the peaks of the pillars has been blasted by my enhancements on the other hand I can see those areas at any time in the original. In the enhancements, for instance for the series of three views immediately above, I like very much being able to see the mount everest jutting out to a sharp peak with tibetan valleys and ridges cascading down the sides of the peak.
This tells me in an instant far more about the object than does the dim dark original, further, in knowing that the infra red purpose was to see how many stars are behind the opaque screen of visible light, I can see in an instant in my enhancements that there are many stars, many in patterns of cresents and arcs following the hems, and residing in the trenches, of curving curtains of dust and gas folds. All of this I find interesting, in contrast to a picture which can hardly be seen and causes depressive feelings by its gloomy murks.
NEXT SLIDE PLEASE
A NICMOS (infra red image by Hubble) shows solid Eagle pillars where prior Hubble famous images showed long thin thongs seeming along on their own, the NICMOS image a surprise to astronomers who hope to resurrect the Hubble NICMOS ability, which went off line in 1999 when coolents ran out. The fact that a solid apparition in one group of light frequencies is not seen in another, can be startling to anyone who thinks the whole of a forest is seen by one pair of high contrast or polarized sunglasses, and that any other pairs of sunglasses will show different shadings of the same things.
Grrrrr. At the time of this writing (Febuary 25/2002) no source site
can be found for reference in GIC for this above image. Some caption
information about it and NICMOS, appeared in a daily online science
news magazine. I cannot cite the link because the link call letters
for it change daily. A rather comprehensive search of the Internet
using every wily I could muster using LOOK.COM led finally to 476 links
to the University of Arizona, most all of the links to literatures
and writing programs with professors photos prominently featured.
The news magazine did mention that NICMOS was a University of
Arizona project involving Hubble, but the magazine cited no
links to source none at all. That is another problem with this
particular news magazine, it cites no sources none whatsoever
instead it cites numerous sources to buy their online astronomy
products and book titles. Have your credit card ready. This above image is named 'eggnebul' because astronomers originally though stars at the ends of pillars were 'eggs' and the name has stuck, Eagle images can still be named as 'egg' images by pros.
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