https://zettelsraum.blogspot.com/2020/06...von-otford.html

Ergänzung:

Zitat von ZR

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(Nachtrag vom 14. Juni)

"...Odin und Balder und Thor, die Götter der längst vergangenen Zeiten, sah sie mit eigenen Augen und deutlich vor sich in der Nacht über der Heide..."

Ich sehe mit zwei Tagen Verspätung, daß die NASA als ihr "Astronomy Picture of the Day" (APOD) für den Tag dieses Beitrags, den 12.06., diese Aufnahme gewählt hat:

mit folgender Erläuterung:

NGC 2359: Thor's Helmet

NGC 2359 is a helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages popularly called Thor's Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is more like an interstellar bubble, blown as a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center inflates a region within the surrounding molecular cloud. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation of the Great Overdog. The remarkably sharp image is a mixed cocktail of data from broadband and narrowband filters using three different telescopes. It captures natural looking stars and the details of the nebula's filamentary structures. The predominant bluish hue is strong emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms in the glowing gas.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200612.html

Wer sich fragt, warum aus dem Sternbild Großer Hund, Canis major, hier "the great overdog" geworden ist: es handelt sich um eine Anspielung auf das Gedicht "Canis Major" von Robert Frost aus dem Jahr 1925:

The great Overdog
That heavenly beast
With a star in one eye
Gives a leap in the east.
He dances upright
All the way to the west
And never once drops
On his forefeet to rest.
I'm a poor underdog,
But to-night I will bark
With the great Overdog
That romps through the dark.

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