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Was Firefox Logo Inspired By Images From Hubble Telescope?
Author: Jimmy14 Apr
It’s hardly to believe that the creation of Firefox logo was inspired by space images captured by Hubble Space Telescope but the following pictures could prove that claim.
The picture on the left looks like the variable star V838 Monocerotis near our Milky Way Galaxy.
However, it is found that the original image (below) was modified a bit to look more like Firefox logo. “… it’s been rotated relative to the photo below, and some of the gas cloud may have been edited out around the “tail” of the fox.” said Charlie Sorrel from Wired’s Gadget Lab blog.
Some people said that it was actually a sign from Heaven for everyone to stop using Internet Explorer 
. Do you think so?
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3 Responses for "Was Firefox Logo Inspired By Images From Hubble Telescope?"
The image wasn’t edited at all (and there’s no such thing as upside-down in space so rotating an image is not meaningful)
The reason that one image looks different is because the cloud formation and the light echo is changing over time and that’s an older image.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:V838_Monocerotis_expansion.jpg for all of the images showing the progression.
That would be alot of displacement. Only god or photoshop can move galaxies around like that.
This is an interesting picture and thought. I knew I liked firefox for some reason, now I have my answer.
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