a singaporean view of the sky ....

Maybe I'm going native... I was watching the spitzer telescope high definition podcast from Caltech today and they had a Halloween special where they showed the "black widow nebula":

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and the GLIMPSE Team, http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/sig/sig05-020.shtml

which actually does look rather red in this image, and my first thought was that it really did not look like an spider but rather like a crab, and that a much better name would be the chilli crab nebula. Yup, I think that means I've ben in this place for a little too long...

Mr. C