4.1 APOD

Endeavour to Orbit

The column of smoke is from the Space Shuttle Endeavour launch towards the International Space Station. This looks so unrealistic, like something coming down from the heavens. It just seems to connect Earth and the beyond. From this far distance, you can see it go above the clouds but you can't really imagine how high it is unless you're standing next to it. Apparently, there are Rocket launches once a week on Earth so these scenes can be pretty common.

3.10 APOD

M104 Hubble Remix

A Remix....? I have no clue what they meant by that but this looks like a UFO sighting from one of those old movies. It's like a flying disk and the glow just brings out that mysteriousness. It's said that the cosmic dust lanes give the hat-like look like the Sombrero Galaxy. M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of Virgo Galaxy Cluster.

Planetary Nebulae

http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/planetary_nebulae.html
http://home.austarnet.com.au/mhorn/pneb.html
http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/groups/pn/
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/97/pn/photo-gallery.html
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/nebula/
http://www.spacetelescope.org/bin/images.pl
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-astro-nebula.html

3.9 APOD

NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula

Cat's paw...if I turn my head and look at it diagonally, I can kind of see the paw they're talking about. But really, it's just patches of red clusters of stars. Actually, in the top right cluster, I can see a face in it. The round yellow thing is like the eye and then the nose comes down beside it. The bright white part is the tip of the nose. If I could, I would name it a fox nebula or something. And the other 2 clusters?... I don't know... But this looks really cool though. It's just so red.