Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens. Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

I see a tardigrade

[–] TurnOnTheSunflower@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Where?

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

34 pixels from the left, 178 down. Zoom WAY in.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

In the picture, in the middle. I see a tardigrade's little head.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There's no way you could see a tardigrade at this scale. They're very small.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That's a joke, right?

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Not at all, they're the smallest member of the bear family - really very small indeed.

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