Galaxy that is much like firefox browser has been found.
About 20,000 light years from the Sun, right near the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, sits V838 Monocerotis, a red variable star. Does it remind you of something? Of course it does: it resembles one of the world’s most famous Internet browser: FireFox.
It’s actually the variable star V838 Monocerotis near our Milky Way Galaxy. We personally think it’s actually a sign from Heaven for everyone to stop using Internet Explorer.
This shot was taken by the Hubble space telescope on February 8, 2004, just a few weeks after the FireFox logo we all came to know and love was originally designed.
So the question remains: Is the resemblance purely fortuitous or are there deeper mysteries inside the famous red panda logo?
Rapidly brightening objects like novae and supernovae are known to produce a phenomenon known as light echo. The light that travels directly from the object arrives first. If there are clouds of interstellar matter around the star, some light is reflected from the clouds. Because of the longer path, the reflected light arrives later, producing a vision of expanding rings of light around the erupted object.
In the case of V838 Monocerotis, the light echo produced was unprecedented and is well documented in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. While the photos appear to depict an expanding spherical shell of debris, they are actually formed by the illumination of an ever-expanding ellipsoid with the progenitor star at one focus and the observer at the other. Hence, despite appearances, the structures in these photos are actually concave toward the viewer. In other words, the light is reflecting dust that is mostly 'behind' the star, not in 'front' of it.
About 20,000 light years from the Sun, right near the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, sits V838 Monocerotis, a red variable star. Does it remind you of something? Of course it does: it resembles one of the world’s most famous Internet browser: FireFox.
It’s actually the variable star V838 Monocerotis near our Milky Way Galaxy. We personally think it’s actually a sign from Heaven for everyone to stop using Internet Explorer.
This shot was taken by the Hubble space telescope on February 8, 2004, just a few weeks after the FireFox logo we all came to know and love was originally designed.
So the question remains: Is the resemblance purely fortuitous or are there deeper mysteries inside the famous red panda logo?
Rapidly brightening objects like novae and supernovae are known to produce a phenomenon known as light echo. The light that travels directly from the object arrives first. If there are clouds of interstellar matter around the star, some light is reflected from the clouds. Because of the longer path, the reflected light arrives later, producing a vision of expanding rings of light around the erupted object.
In the case of V838 Monocerotis, the light echo produced was unprecedented and is well documented in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. While the photos appear to depict an expanding spherical shell of debris, they are actually formed by the illumination of an ever-expanding ellipsoid with the progenitor star at one focus and the observer at the other. Hence, despite appearances, the structures in these photos are actually concave toward the viewer. In other words, the light is reflecting dust that is mostly 'behind' the star, not in 'front' of it.
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