Talk:Stingray Nebula

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[edit] The Crocodile Hunter

Are there plans to christen a nearby nebula after Steve Irwin?


[edit] Please explain:

  • (Hen-1357) -- what classification system is this?
  • as large as 130 solar systems - OUR solar system, or any?
  • as big as a dime - please do not use examples that only North American readers can understand.

-- Tarquin 13:13, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 18,000 years ago

Shouldn't we point out that all this took place 18,000 years ago - it's just now that the light reached us ? -- Beardo 02:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

The whole point of this article seems to be the claim that it didn't happen 18,000 years ago, but rather in 1987. This is explicitly what the DYK "hook" says. Is that simply incorrect? -Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 03:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Logic and science dictate that it could not have happened in the last century. Xiner (talk, email) 03:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
I know, you are right. So, what's the deal then?-Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 03:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
The point is that we can observe it for scientific examination at a very young age. From the perspective of earth, it is the youngest known observable PN. WilliamKF 01:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)