Famous Quotes
by Carla on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 | 2 Comments
‘We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.’” Joseph Campbell said,
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A Chameleon Sky
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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How cool to visit Peru (and get off the boat for a while!). Will you see the Andes Mtns? We’re jealous! Where to from Aruba? I hear Makai is on their way there also.
We saw the Andes in Peru and Chile. It was fantastic. Email me and let me know what’s going on with you