#scylla — Public Fediverse posts
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📸 Between Scylla and Charybdis
Amateur astronomers discovered a faint supernova remnant in Cepheus, now named Scylla. Glowing with red hydrogen and blue oxygen, it’s a rare find. But that’s not all — they also spotted a new planetary nebula candidate nearby, named Charybdis.
📅 June 9, 2025
📷 NASA APOD
🔗 stellarsnap.space
#APOD #NASA #Scylla #Charybdis #Astrophotography #Space #SpaceDiscovery #StellarSnap -
Between #Scylla and #Charybdis: A Double Cosmic Discovery
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I don't understand "risk takers", probably because I've always known horrific things can happen to me, and anyone.
I've been to the crater rim of Mount #Vesuvius, watched Mount #Etna erupting at night while sailing between the #Scylla and #Charybdis, stood at the base of a cloud-shrouded #Arenal, and driven into and walked around inside of La #Soufrière, so I'm not 100% risk averse.
But allowing civilians to visit a #volcano that erupted twice in the six previous years is criminal negligence.
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#scylla (the six-headed, sea dragon lady) and #charybdis (a lethal, carnivorous whirlpool) are two of the most prominent #monsters in Hellenic #mythology.
According to the description given in #Homer ‘s #Odyssey Book XII, the legendary sea #creatures are rumoured to inhabit the strait of Messina (between #sicily and #calabria ), lurking in the #mediterranean sea and sinking their victims’ boats before feasting on them.
#mythologymonday #folklore #legend #seamonsters