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2024-11-11
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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Am I the only one who sees this as a sloth instead of a helmet?
Yes? Ok maybe I'm going crazy
Yeah, angry sloth throwing a tantrum.
Well, maybe Thor is wearing a sloth for a helmet, fur was popular at the time I imagine.
Came here to write this.
I see a tardigrade
Where?
In the picture, in the middle. I see a tardigrade's little head.
There's no way you could see a tardigrade at this scale. They're very small.
That's a joke, right?
Not at all, they're the smallest member of the bear family - really very small indeed.