APOD: 2021 August 12 - A Beautiful Trifid

Thank you my space-exploration advocate friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Thursday, August 12, 2021 entitled "A Beautiful Trifid."
I well remember reading John Wyndham's 1951 post-apocalyptic novel Day of the Triffids

Image:
1. A Beautiful Trifid - Image Credit & Copyright - Mike Selby
2. Image of a Triffid from 'The Day of the Triffids' by John Wyndham
3. 1951 post-apocalyptic novel 'The Day of the Triffids' by John Wyndham

APOD Background
"Explanation: The beautiful Trifid Nebula is a cosmic study in contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light from hydrogen atoms, blue reflection nebulae produced by dust reflecting starlight, and dark nebulae where dense dust clouds appear in silhouette. But the red emission region roughly separated into three parts by obscuring dust lanes is what lends the Trifid its popular name. Pillars and jets sculpted by newborn stars, below and left of the emission nebula's center, appear in famous Hubble Space Telescope close-up images of the region. The Trifid Nebula is about 40 light-years across. Just too faint to be seen by the unaided eye, it almost covers the area of a full moon in planet Earth's sky."

Tender Is The Night (The Long Fidelity) - the Triffids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtjO8YbRhBw&list=OLAK5uy_nX_vAKNMK5BVU8HFWf7NJ6HeP__VMJ-g0&index=17

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Been missing the meteor showers...weather has been awful in the evenings...oh well
Keep saying I am going to get a telescope. Great post and good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

Beautiful APOD.