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Firefox Logo Seen in Deep Space

By Miss Cellania in Pictures on Apr 12, 2008 at 6:22 am


This photo of variable star V838 Monocerotis was taken by the Hubble telescope in 2002. At the time, no one realized how much it looked like the Firefox logo, since the browser wasn’t even named that until 2004. Link -via the Presurfer


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  1. MrPumpernickel
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 6:45 am

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

  2. bean
    Apr 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.

  3. CheeseDuck
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 8:47 am

    Proof that FireFox is better than IE?

  4. oezicomix
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am

    definite proof!!

  5. Nastia
    Apr 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??

  6. xander
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 10:48 am

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

  7. empty-minded
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 11:19 am

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

  8. Justin
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 11:48 am

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

  9. avist
    Apr 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.

  10. Lostfiniel
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Lovely!

  11. donna
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    I always wondered where the logo came from!

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

    My God. It's full of stars....@_@

  13. Lore
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

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

  14. Tim
    Apr 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.

  15. ted
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    Love the subtle literary reference, Ali.

  16. Ali S.
    Apr 12th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    @ ted

    Zing! ;)

  17. Tempscire
    Apr 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.

  18. Cydmqvtu
    May 7th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

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