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Cap Cana Dominican Republic

By Carla on Monday, November 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Ok, I think I will just let the pictures speak for themselves.               Is this cool or what?

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Cleat No More!

By Carla on Sunday, November 25th, 2007 | No Comments

 The day started off simply enough.  The usual 20 plus knot wind.  The boat jerking around in the swells.  The constant worry of breaking a line.  Dan and I really thought about heading over to Cap Cana, but with the swells and the wind, and untangling about ten different lines, we weren’t sure if we [...]

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Punta Cana Marina

By Carla on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 | No Comments

Today was our last day with the rental car, so after doing some errands we decided to drop by Cap Cana for a tour.  We are realle getting worried about the swells in the Punta Cana Marina.  The wind and swells are going to be much worse tomorrow through Tuesday so we may need to [...]

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    The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL)
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