Hello,

so... whats that? :-) Found them yesterday by randomly looking at a skyplot:

http://jeanbruenn.info/seltsames_setihome-google-space-maps.html

Cheers
Jean

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First one looks like the oo's in a google watermark. Google has apparently claimed a vast number of planets, stars, and systems already in skyplot :-)

Not sure what the other is, if it's a starship, it looks several light years long - would hate to be an ensign running a message to engineering if comms went down!

Srsly tho, the 2nd one is a curiously interesting blotch in the clouds...

The top one is a planetary nebula, similar to the hourglass nebula:

Hourglass Nebula

The bottom one is just a random gas cloud.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

the first one could be a "warp" i.e. a swinging galaxy. However the swinging takes that long that we'll only see the current warped state. (not to mix up with the warp drive ;))