It is perhaps one of the traditions that we have not left throughout the history of humanity to compare objects such as clouds and stars that we see when we look above, to different things in terms of shape. Even though the divine meanings we give to these objects decrease as our knowledge increases, we still can’t help looking at the stars and saying “oh looks like a duck”. In addition, the objects we liken differ according to the culture of the age.
A photo of the nebula recently released by NASA has been likened to an almost century-old science fiction and horror legend: Godzilla. ‘clouds’ of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases from the constellation Sagittarius; It reveals a distinctive silhouette of Godzilla, especially his face and hand.
If this silhouette could be observed in ancient times, we do not know whether it would resemble something else. However, a standing dragon with such a head structure, we think, does not exist in any myth.
Photo of the nebula where Godzilla appeared:
After NASA astronomer Robert Hurt captured a nebula (clouds of dust and gas in space) in the constellation Sagittarius, NASA shared the image on Twitter. Looking at the nebula as a whole, Hurt saw the fictional entity Godzilla, whose first movie was shot in 1954 in Japan. Although the stars in the upper right are located in the Milky Way Galaxy, their distance from Earth is not known exactly. The stars in the lower left, resembling Godzilla’s hand, are located 7,800 light-years away.
Speaking about the image obtained within Spitzer’s GLIMPSE Survey, Robert Hurt cites the silhouette of Godzilla in the constellation Sagittarius, saying: “I wasn’t looking for a monster. I happened upon a region of the sky that I had looked at many times before but never zoomed in. Sometimes if you crop an area differently, Something you haven’t seen before appears. I saw eyes and a mouth roaring at me ‘Godzilla’. We want people to connect with the incredible work Spitzer is doing. I’m looking for compelling photos that can really tell a story. Sometimes it’s a story about how stars and planets formed, sometimes it’s about a giant monster in Tokyo.”
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