Firefox Logo Seen in Deep Space

• MrPumpernickel
  April 12th, 2008 at 6:45 am

  Space is going to slap such a huge lawsuit on the Mozilla foundation now, just you wait.

• bean
  April 12th, 2008 at 8:31 am

  Yeah, I think it’s safe to say the Firefox logo looks like the star, not the other way around. Unless you would also say that there’s this flat savory pastry in Italy that totally looks like pizza.

• CheeseDuck
  April 12th, 2008 at 8:47 am

  Proof that FireFox is better than IE?

• oezicomix
  April 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am

  definite proof!!

• Nastia
  April 12th, 2008 at 10:02 am

  I always get confused at space pictures, if they aren’t true color, then what do the colors mean??

• xander
  April 12th, 2008 at 10:48 am

  Mozilla Firefox, too, is the atheist’s nightmare!

• empty-minded
  April 12th, 2008 at 11:19 am

  I see a descicated lizard in the photo, not a fox. Maybe I need better glasses.

• Justin
  April 12th, 2008 at 11:48 am

  Nastia, I believe they are taken in the infrared spectrum. The different colors represent varying degrees of heat.

• avist
  April 12th, 2008 at 11:54 am

  Also see: http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs226&d=08156&f=stellarfox632.jpg

  Sorry, I don’t know who made it.

• Lostfiniel
  April 12th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

  Lovely!

• donna
  April 12th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

  I always wondered where the logo came from!

• Ali S.
  April 12th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

  My God. It’s full of stars….@_@

• Lore
  April 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

  If I squint really hard and turn my head to the left then yea… I see it.

• Tim
  April 12th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

  I see the yin-yang symbol, no I see a wave, wait, it is a whirlpool, yeah, whirlpool, definately a whirlpool.

• ted
  April 12th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

  Love the subtle literary reference, Ali.

• Ali S.
  April 12th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

  @ ted

  Zing!

• Tempscire
  April 13th, 2008 at 11:01 am

  Not all space photos are taken in infrared. It can also just be a matter of what kind (colors) of lens filters they use for some. They do try to get close to the true color, though. And there are many other kinds of light (by which I mean wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum) they use, though many of those don’t produce images of stars as the common observer would recognize. Astronomy magazine had a neat little article on it years ago with a handy panel showing the same object’s picture taken many different ways. Haven’t found an equivalent online.

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