Topic: Space Pictures This Week: Orion's Jewel, Horned Dunes, More

[sam]

The "jewel" in Orion's sword, the star-forming cloud known as M42 shines with new light in a picture released yesterday by the European Southern Observatory's 2.2-meter telescope in La Silla, Chile. Also called the Orion Nebula, the bright cloud is just 1,350 light-years away and is one of the best studied celestial objects.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/pictures/110121-best-space-photos-whirlpool-galaxy-m82-saturn-moons-128/

[Clive]

I love the picture of the Crab Nebula! 

[Rik]

Did someone mention food? 

[Clive]

Trust you Rik!   

[Rik]

I am nothing if not consistent - usually consistently hungry. 

[Simon]

And crabby if not fed.  

[Rik]

What's your beef?

[Simon]

Only that there's not mush room on the plate. 

[Rik]

Lonnie Donnegan, c. 1960

[Simon]

Was it?   

[Rik]

Part of 'My Old Man's a Dustman'.

[Simon]

I've got that record somewhere.  B side was Mother of Mine, iirc. 

[Rik]

It was. You must have started buying at a very young age. 

[Simon]

I did, but I also used to buy ex-juke box singles for 5 pence each at the local newsagent.  Half of them had the bigger juke box hole in the middle, so I kept having to swap the plastic spindle adapter from one to the other to play them. 

[Rik]

I remember those well. We used to have box loads of them in hospital radio because we received donated 45s with the centres out.