Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Comets Kick up Dust in Helix Nebula (PIA09178).jpg

Image:169141main piaa09178.jpg, featured

•  Info created by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz. - uploaded by Startaq - nominated by Startaq --startaq 03:50, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
•  Support This is a fascinating view of the Helix nebula created by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope --startaq 03:50, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

• And it's today's astronomy picture of the day. --Flex 13:44, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

•  Strong support --Luc Viatour 13:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
•  Support A little noisy at full resolution, though --Alipho 17:14, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Very impresive picture --Karelj 21:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Lestat 16:54, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
•  Strong support--tomf688 (talk - email) 20:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
•  Support "Открылась бездна, звёзд полна. Звёздам числа нет, бездне – дна. (Ломоносов)" ("An abyss has opened, full of stars, Stars are innumerable, the abyss bottomless (Lomonosov)). Vmenkov 06:10, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
•  Neutral why is that we tend to allways feature the nasa pictues?.. dunno you but for me it seems somehow unfair.-LadyofHats 19:45, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

  It's NASA. It's technology. It's superior. (That's the image people have maybe it's not always true but Nasa creates amazing images without copyright restriction and I respect that.) --Arad 00:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

  Well, if I had telescopes like theirs and knew how to use them, then maybe I'd produce pictures worse being featured :-) Vmenkov 03:02, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

•  Comment An alternative image of the Helix Nebula is this → I'm currently double-checking copyright status and trying to overcome thumbnail problems with the large-scale version, but once that's done I will submit it for FPC. ~ trialsanderrors 10:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Nominated now ~ trialsanderrors 04:52, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

• Yours is the visible light image (a la Hubble Space Telescope), whereas this nomination is the infrared (a la Spitzer Space Telescope). --Flex 14:59, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

•  Support --Tone 20:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Flex 14:59, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --MichaelMaggs 10:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Another great one from NASA. Eye I like it.--HereToHelp (talk) 22:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral => featured. Simonizer 08:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)