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Thor's Helmet (storage.science.social)
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Thor's Helmet

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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[โ€“] egrets@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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