What does a nebula look like up close?

Wow, that means that we might be in a nebula, now, and not know it... right?

It always annoyed me when a Star Trek ship needed to hide and just flew into the nearest nebula. They have sensors that can detect ships light years away but as soon they enter a tenuous cloud of hydrogen all bets are off? Or even better, there are the episodes when environmental controls fail and the ship actually starts filling with an odd-colored opaque gas. Keep spreading the word, Phil!

hehe
or that they can detect the mass of planets or whatever far away, but not the mass of a cloacked ship...

or on the opening credits of voyager the ship goes through a gas cloud and the wake of gas pushed out of the way spirals behind the ship as if theres a low pressure area behind it.. that happens in atmosphere not in space :p
that always bugged me when i saw it

So is it posible that we live inside a nebula

yep we very well could be inside a nebula.

nice vid :)

Not only that, snarff66, but, because they built it, they get first crack at the data. They'll probably want to examine the data before they release it. Their scientists come first.

Exactly. I mentioned that earlier. Alienmoonbase doesn't seem to realise that since it is a Japanese probe, they get priority. The way people work in Japan, they tend to be meticulous and go through things thoroughly before releasing any information. But of course, they have been releasing HD videos from the data they've received. Just one of those movies would take a long time to make, considering it's composed of thousands of images, each of which need to be processed.

Quick get in the Enterprise. We're going to the Cat Eye Nebula :)