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An extraordinary celestial spiral
This remarkable picture from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows one of the most perfect geometrical forms created in space. It captures the formation of an unusual pre-planetary nebula, known as IRAS 23166+1655, around the star LL Pegasi (also known as AFGL 3068) in the constellation of Pegasus (the Winged Horse).
The striking picture shows what appears to be a thin spiral pattern of astonishingly regularity winding around the star, which is itself hidden behind thick dust. The spiral pattern suggests a regular periodic origin for the nebula's shape. The material forming the spiral is moving outwards a speed of about 50 000 km/hour and, by combining this speed with the distance between layers, astronomers calculate that the shells are each separated by about 800 years.
The spiral is thought to arise because LL Pegasi is a binary system, with the star that is losing material and a companion star orbiting each other. The spacing between layers in the spiral is expected to directly reflect the orbital period of the binary, which is indeed estimated to be also about 800 years.
The creation and shaping of planetary nebulae is an exciting area of stellar evolution. Stars with masses from about half that of the Sun up to about eight times that of the Sun do not explode as supernovae at the ends of their lives. Instead a more regal end awaits them as their outer layers of gas are shed and drift into space, creating striking and intricate structures that to Earth-bound observers often look like dramatic watercolour paintings. IRAS 23166+1655 is just starting this process and the central star has yet to emerge from the cocoon of enveloping dust.
This picture was created from images from the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble. Images through a yellow filter (F606W, coloured blue) were combined with images through a near-infra red filter (F804W, coloured red). The exposure times were 11 minutes and 22 minutes respectively and the field of view spans about 80 arcseconds.
- Paper discussing the intriguing AFGL 3068 (PDF format)
Young stars biting the cloud that feeds them
A billowing cloud of hydrogen in the Triangulum galaxy (Messier 33), about 2.7 million light-years away from Earth, glows with the energy released by hundreds of young, bright stars. This NASA/ESA Hubble Spare Telescope image provides the sharpest view of NGC 604 so far obtained.
Some 1500 light-years across, this is one of the largest, brightest concentrations of ionised hydrogen (H II) in our local group of galaxies, and is a major centre of star formation.
The gas in NGC 604, around nine tenths of it hydrogen, is gradually collapsing under the force of gravity to create new stars. Once these stars have formed, the vigorous ultraviolet radiation they emit excites the remaining gas in the cloud, making it glow a distinct shade of red. This colour is typical not only of NGC 604 but of other H II regions too. Although it is part of Messier 33 this object is so bright and prominent that it was given its own NGC number.
The fierce ultraviolet radiation released by the stars that give these hydrogen clouds their distinctive glow is also the cause of their uneven appearance and eventual disappearance. The radiation and winds blowing from the surface of these stars gradually erode the cloud they formed from, causing the gases to slowly disperse. The complex structure of NGC 604, with irregular bubbles and wispy filament-like structures alongside denser, redder areas is due to the same forces that will eventually make the cloud disappear. The blister-like cavities show areas of stronger erosion of the cloud. While these areas appear dark in this photograph, they shine brightly at X-ray wavelengths.
This image was created from images taken using the High Resolution Channel of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. It is a composite of images taken through a total of seven different filters spanning a huge range of wavelengths — from 220 nm in the ultraviolet all the way up to the near infrared at one micron. The field of view is about 31 by 22 arcseconds.
Messier 71: an unusual globular cluster
This spectacular NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a bright scattering of stars in the small constellation of Sagitta (the Arrow). This is the centre of the globular cluster Messier 71, a great ball of ancient stars on the edge of our galaxy around 13 000 light-years from Earth. M71 is around 27 light-years across.
Globular clusters are like galactic suburbs, pockets of stars that exist on the edge of major galaxies. These clusters are tightly bound together by their gravitational attraction, hence their spherical shape and their name: globulus means "little sphere" in Latin.
Around 150 such globular clusters are known to exist around our Milky Way, each one of them containing several hundred thousand stars.
Messier 71 has been known for a long time, having been first spotted in the mid eighteenth century by Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux. Cheseaux discovered a number of nebulae in his career, and also spent much time studying religion: one posthumously published work attempted to derive the exact date of Christ's crucifixion from astronomical events noted in the Bible.
Despite being a familiar object, Messier 71's precise nature was disputed until recently. Was it simply an open cluster, a loosely bound group of stars? This was for many years the dominant view. But in the 1970s, astronomers came to the view that it is in fact a relatively sparse globular cluster.
The stars in Messier 71, as is usual in such clusters, are relatively old, at around 9 to 10 billion years, and consequently are low in elements other than hydrogen and helium.
This picture was created from images taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble. It is a combination of images taken through yellow (F606W — coloured blue) and near-infrared (F814W — coloured red) filters. The exposure times were 304 s and 324 s respectively. The field of view is about 3.4 arcminutes across.
A snowstorm of distant galaxies
At first glance, the scatter of pale dots on this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image looks like a snowstorm in the night sky. But almost every one of these delicate snowflakes is a distant galaxy in the cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 and each is home to billions of stars. This apparently placid scene also hides a storm of epic scale. This picture shows a region where three galaxy clusters are merging and releasing enormous amounts of energy in the form of X-rays. These distant objects are around 5.4 billion light-years from Earth, and were imaged during the Massive Cluster Survey, a project to study distant clusters of galaxies using Hubble.
The amount of mass in this sea of galaxies is huge, and is great enough to visibly bend the fabric of spacetime. The strange distortion in the shapes of many of the galaxies in this picture, which appear stretched and bent as if they were looked at through a glass bottle, is a result of gravitational lensing, where the gravitational fields around massive objects bend light around them.
Predicted by Einstein in his famous general theory of relativity, gravity's ability to distort light was first demonstrated in 1919 in a well-known experiment carried out by Sir Arthur Eddington, who led an expedition to the island of Principe, off the coast of Africa, to measure the apparent shift of a star when observed close to the edge of the Sun's disc during a solar eclipse.
This picture was created from images taken through near-infrared (F814W) and yellow (F555W) filters using the Wide Field Channel of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The exposure times were about 67 minutes and 33 minutes respectively and the field of view of the image is about 3 arcminutes across.
- The MACS survey
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Frenzied star birth in Haro 11
Haro 11 appears to shine gently amid clouds of gas and dust, but this placid facade belies the monumental rate of star formation occurring in this "starburst" galaxy. By combining data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have created a new image of this incredibly bright and distant galaxy. The team of astronomers from Stockholm University, Sweden, and the Geneva Observatory, Switzerland, have identified 200 separate clusters of very young, massive stars. Most of these are less than 10 million years old. Many of the clusters are so bright in infrared light that astronomers suspect that the stars are still emerging from the cloudy cocoons where they were born. The observations have led the astronomers to conclude that Haro 11 is most likely the result of a merger between a galaxy rich in stars and a younger, gas-rich galaxy. Haro 11 is found to produce stars at a frantic rate, converting about 20 solar masses of gas into stars every year.
Haro galaxies, first discovered by the noted astronomer Guillermo Haro in 1956, are defined by unusually intense blue and violet light. Usually this high energy radiation comes from the presence of many newborn stars or an active galactic nucleus. Haro 11 is about 300 million light-years away and is the second closest of such starburst galaxies.
The paper describing this result ("Super star clusters in Haro 11: Properties of a very young starburst and evidence for a near-infrared flux excess", by A. Adamo et al.) is available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16983.x
A piercing eye in the sky
This dramatic image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the planetary nebula NGC 3918, a brilliant cloud of colourful gas in the constellation of Centaurus, around 4900 light-years from Earth.
In the centre of the cloud of gas, and completely dwarfed by the nebula, are the dying remnants of a red giant. During the final convulsive phase in the evolution of these stars, huge clouds of gas are ejected from the surface of the star before it emerges from its cocoon as a white dwarf. The intense ultraviolet radiation from the tiny remnant star then causes the surrounding gas to glow like a fluorescent sign. These extraordinary and colourful planetary nebulae are among the most dramatic sights in the night sky, and often have strange and irregular shapes, which are not yet fully explained.
NGC 3918's distinctive eye-like shape, with a bright inner shell of gas and a more diffuse outer shell that extends far from the nebula looks as if it could be the result of two separate ejections of gas. But this is in fact not the case: studies of the object suggest that they were formed at the same time, but are being blown from the star at different speeds. The powerful jets of gas emerging from the ends of the large structure are estimated to be shooting away from the star at speeds of up to 350 000 kilometres per hour.
By the standards of astronomical phenomena, planetary nebulae like NGC 3918 are very short-lived, with a lifespan of just a few tens of thousands of years.
The image is a composite of visible and near-infrared snapshots taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The filters used were F658N, F814W, F555W and F502N, seen in red, orange, green and blue respectively. The image is about 20 arcseconds across.
Red, but not dead
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture depicts the galaxy NGC 1533 in the southern constellation of Dorado (the Dolphin-fish). Around 62 million light-years from Earth, NGC 1533, which is classed as a lenticular galaxy, is a transitional type that shows characteristics of both spiral and elliptical galaxies.
Like elliptical galaxies, NGC 1533 is largely made up of older and redder stars and vast numbers of them create the smooth glow across the whole picture. However, it also has a residual level of star formation and some young blue stars, which are revealed by its weak barred spiral structure that is faintly visible in this image. Astronomers studying star formation in this type of galaxy are able to subtract the bright light of the stars to reveal the details of a subtle spiral structure that cannot be well seen in less heavily processed images such as this one.
John Herschel, son of William Herschel, the astronomer who discovered Uranus, found NGC 1533 in 1834 during his survey of the southern skies from the Cape of Good Hope.
The image was created from images taken using the Wide Field Channel of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. It is a composite of images taken through yellow (F606W) and near-infrared (F814W) filters. The total exposure times were 38 minutes and 82 minutes respectively and the field of view is about 2.6 by 1.5 arcminutes across.
NGC 1872: open or globular cluster?
This spectacular NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows NGC 1872, a rich cluster of thousands of stars lying in our small neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This little-studied cluster is located in the constellation of Dorado (the Dolphinfish, a fish unrelated to the dolphin and which often appears on dinner menus under its Hawaiian name mahi-mahi). The Scottish astronomer James Dunlop was probably the first to spot NGC 1872 in 1826 with a small telescope near Sydney in Australia.
Clusters are very interesting to astronomers because the stars in them all formed together in both space and time and hence the stars we see now are of similar ages and similar initial composition. Cluster studies have been vital in working out how stars evolve and the power of Hubble allows these studies to be taken beyond our own Milky Way and out into the Local Group of our neighbouring galaxies.
Star clusters are usually classed as either open or globular but NGC 1872 has characteristics of both — it is as rich as a typical globular but is much younger, and, like many open clusters, has bluer stars. Such intermediate clusters are common in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
This image was acquired using the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was created from images taken through yellow (F555W) and near-infrared (F814W) filters, coloured blue and red in the image. The exposure times were 115 s and 90 s respectively and the field of view is about 3.0 by 1.5 arcminutes.
A dying star starts shedding its skin
This Hubble Space Telescope picture captures a brief but beautiful phase late in the life of a star. The curious cloud around this bright star is called IRAS 19475+3119. It lies in the constellation of Cygnus (the Swan) about 15 000 light-years from Earth in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy.
As stars similar to the Sun age they swell into red giant stars and when this phase ends they start to shed their atmospheres into space. The surroundings become rich in dust and the star is still relatively cool. At this point the cloud shines by reflecting the brilliant light of the central star and the warm dust gives off lots of infrared radiation. It was this infrared radiation that was detected by the IRAS satellite in 1983 and brought the object to the attention of astronomers. Jets from the star may create strange hollow lobes, and in the case of IRAS 19475+3119 two such features appear at different angles. These curious objects are rare and short-lived.
As the star continues to shed material the hotter core is gradually revealed. The intense ultraviolet radiation causes the surrounding gas to glow brilliantly and a planetary nebula is born. The objects that come before planetary nebulae, such as IRAS 19475+3119, are known as preplanetary nebulae, or protoplanetary nebulae. They have nothing to do with planets — the name planetary nebula arose as they looked rather like the outer planets Uranus and Neptune when seen through small telescopes.
This image was created from images taken using the High Resolution Channel of the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The red light was captured through a filter letting through yellow and red light (F606W) and the blue was recorded through a standard blue filter (F435W). The green layer of the image was created by combining the blue and red images. The total exposure times were 24 s and 245 s for red and blue respectively. The field of view is about twenty arcseconds across.
The crowded heart of the Hercules globular cluster
This image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the core of the great globular cluster Messier 13 and provides an extraordinarily clear view of the hundreds of thousands of stars in the cluster, one of the brightest and best known in the sky. Just 25 000 light-years away and about 145 light-years in diameter, Messier 13 has drawn the eye since its discovery by Edmund Halley, the noted British astronomer, in 1714. The cluster lies in the constellation of Hercules and is so bright that under the right conditions it is even visible to the unaided eye. As Halley wrote: "This is but a little Patch, but it shews it self to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Messier 13 was the target of a symbolic Arecibo radio telescope message that was sent in 1974, communicating humanity's existence to possible extraterrestrial intelligences. However, more recent studies suggest that planets are very rare in the dense environments of globular clusters.
Messier 13 has also appeared in literature. In his 1959 novel, The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut wrote "Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress." The step from Halley's early telescopic view to this Hubble image indicates some measure of the progress in astronomy in the last three hundred years.
This picture was created from images taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope. Data through a blue filter (F435W) are coloured blue, data through a red filter (F625W) are coloured green and near-infrared data (through the F814W filter) are coloured red. The exposure times are 1480 s, 380 s and 567 s respectively and the field of view is about 2.5 arcminutes across.
A star's colourful final splash
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this beautiful image of NGC 6326, a planetary nebula with glowing wisps of outpouring gas that are lit up by a central star nearing the end of its life. When a star ages and the red giant phase of its life comes to an end, it starts to eject layers of gas from its surface leaving behind a hot and compact white dwarf. Sometimes this ejection results in elegantly symmetric patterns of glowing gas, but NGC 6326 is much less structured. This object is located in the constellation of Ara, the Altar, about 11 000 light-years from Earth.
Planetary nebulae are one of the main ways in which elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are dispersed into space after their creation in the hearts of stars. Eventually some of this outflung material may form new stars and planets. The vivid red and blue hues in this image come from the material glowing under the action of the fierce ultraviolet radiation from the still hot central star.
This picture was created from images taken using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The red light was captured through a filter letting through the glow from hydrogen gas (F658N). The blue glow comes from ionised oxygen and was recorded through a green filter (F502N). The green layer of the image, which shows the stars well, was taken through a broader yellow filter (F555W). The total exposure times were 1400 s, 360 s and 260 s respectively. The field of view is about 30 arcseconds across.
A fine Hydra spiral
The small spiral galaxy NGC 2758 is captured in great detail in this image from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It was first seen by the American astronomer Frank Muller, at the McCormick Observatory in Virginia in the 1880s. This galaxy lies in the constellation of Hydra (the Sea Serpent), the largest and longest constellation in the sky. This very sharp Hubble image shows many of the bright blue stars within the galaxy's loosely wound spiral arms as well as a bright companion dwarf galaxy to the upper left. Many more distant galaxies lie in the background.
NGC 2758 is a fine example of a spiral galaxy that is close enough for the structure to be seen very clearly. In this case the Hubble images were obtained as part of a study of the central redder "bulge" component of galaxies and how they form and evolve.
This picture was created from ACS Hubble images taken through blue (F435W) and near-infrared (F814W) filters. The exposure times were 1050 s per filter and the field of view was about 3.4 arcminutes across.
A lucky observation of an enigmatic cloud
The little-known nebula IRAS 05437+2502 billows out among the bright stars and dark dust clouds that surround it in this striking image from the Hubble Space Telescope. It is located in the constellation of Taurus (the Bull), close to the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Unlike many of Hubble's targets, this object has not been studied in detail and its exact nature is unclear. At first glance it appears to be a small, rather isolated, region of star formation and one might assume that the effects of fierce ultraviolet radiation from bright young stars probably were the cause of the eye-catching shapes of the gas. However, the bright boomerang-shaped feature may tell a more dramatic tale. The interaction of a high velocity young star and the cloud of gas and dust may have created this unusually sharp-edged bright arc. Such a reckless star would have been ejected from the distant young cluster where it was born and would travel at 200 000 km/hour or more through the nebula.
This faint cloud was originally discovered in 1983 by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), the first space telescope to survey the whole sky in the infrared. IRAS was run by the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and found huge numbers of new objects that were invisible from the ground.
This image was taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble. It was part of a "snapshot" survey. These are lists of observations that are fitted into Hubble's busy schedule when possible, without any guarantee that the observation will take place — so it was fortunate that the observation was made at all! This picture was created from images taken through yellow (F606W) and near-infrared (F814W) filters. The exposure times were about eleven minutes per filter and the field of view is about 100 arcseconds across.
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The unique Red Rectangle: sharper than ever before
The star HD 44179 is surrounded by an extraordinary structure known as the Red Rectangle. It acquired its moniker because of its shape and its apparent colour when seen in early images from Earth. This strikingly detailed new Hubble image reveals how, when seen from space, the nebula, rather than being rectangular, is shaped like an X with additional complex structures of spaced lines of glowing gas, a little like the rungs of a ladder. The star at the centre is similar to the Sun, but at the end of its lifetime, pumping out gas and other material to make the nebula, and giving it the distinctive shape. It also appears that the star is a close binary that is surrounded by a dense torus of dust — both of which may help to explain the very curious shape. Precisely how the central engine of this remarkable and unique object spun the gossamer threads of nebulosity remains mysterious. It is likely that precessing jets of material played a role.
The Red Rectangle is an unusual example of what is known as a proto-planetary nebula. These are old stars, on their way to becoming planetary nebulae. Once the expulsion of mass is complete a very hot white dwarf star will remain and its brilliant ultraviolet radiation will cause the surrounding gas to glow. The Red Rectangle is found about 2 300 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn).
The High Resolution Channel of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys captured this view of HD 44179 and the surrounding Red Rectangle nebula — the sharpest view so far. Red light from glowing Hydrogen was captured through the F658N filter and coloured red. Orange-red light over a wider range of wavelengths through a F625W filter was coloured blue.
The field of view is about 25 by 20 arcseconds.
NGC 3810: A Picture-perfect Spiral
The bright galaxy NGC 3810 demonstrates classical spiral structure in this very detailed image from Hubble. The bright central region is thought to be forming many new stars and is outshining the outer areas of the galaxy by some margin. Further out the galaxy displays strikingly rich dust clouds along its spiral arms. A close look shows that Hubble's sharp vision also allows many individual stars to be seen. Hot young blue stars show up in giant clusters far from the centre and the arms are also littered with bright red giant stars.
The original images were acquired by astronomers studying a supernova discovered late in the year 2000. It was the second supernova found in the galaxy in quick succession following another discovered in 1997. NGC 3810 is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Leo (the lion). It was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 and is easily seen as a faint smudge in small telescopes.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys captured this image of NGC 3810. It was observed through three filters letting through blue, green and near-infrared list respectively (F435W, F555W and F814W). The exposure times were about seven minutes per filter and the field of view is about 3.4 x 1.7 arcminutes.
Hubble on the face of the Sun
This remarkable and unique image of the space shuttle Atlantis and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope silhouetted against the dazzling disc of the Sun was captured from the ground near the start of the Servicing Mission 4 on 13 May 2009. The picture was taken from Florida, 100 kilometres south of the Kennedy Space Center as Hubble was about to be grappled by the Shuttle's robot arm. The Shuttle and Hubble appear as small black specks at the lower left, the Shuttle is the larger of the two. The solar disc was unusually quiet in a deep solar minimum and there are no sunspots visible.
The image was acquired with a 130 mm aperture refracting telescope equipped with a special solar prism to reduce the intensity along with a standard digital camera. The transit across the disc of the Sun took less than one second and the path across the ground where it could be observed was only a few kilometres wide — giving some idea of the extraordinarily careful planning needed.
A clump of galaxy misfits
That galaxies come in very different shapes and sizes is dramatically demonstrated by this striking Hubble image of the Hickson Compact Group 59. Named by astronomer Paul Hickson in 1982, this is the 59th such collection of galaxies in his catalogue of unusually close groups. What makes this image interesting is the variety on display. There are two large spiral galaxies, one face-on with smooth arms and delicate dust tendrils, and one highly inclined, as well as a strangely disorderly galaxy featuring clumps of blue young stars. We can also see many apparently smaller, probably more distant, galaxies visible in the background. Hickson groups display many peculiarities, often emitting in the radio and infrared and featuring active star-forming regions. In addition their galaxies frequently contain Active Galactic Nuclei powered by supermassive black holes, as well large quantities of dark matter.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys, using the Wide Field Channel, captured this image of HCG059 in 2007. The picture was created from images taken through blue, yellow and near-infrared filters (F435W, F606W and F814W). The total exposure times per filter were 57 minutes, 41 minutes and 35 minutes respectively. The field of view is about 3.4 arcminutes across.
IC4634's Glowing Waves
This striking Hubble image of the planetary nebula IC 4634 reveals two shining, S-shaped ejections from a dying star. This star, awash in glowing material at the centre of the picture, bloated as it aged and launched its outer layers off into space. The star's very hot, exposed core has since beamed intense ultraviolet radiation at these lost shells of gas, making them glow in rich colours.
This process has been far from orderly or calm, however, as revealed by the distinct, separate waves of thrown-off gases. One is more distant and therefore was spewed first, followed by a more recently ejected tide of matter that formed the tighter S-shape. The result is remarkably symmetric on each side of the central star.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) captured this image of IC 4634, which is found more than about 7500 light-years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus (the Serpent Holder). IC 4634 and other objects like it are known as planetary nebulae due to their appearance through early telescopes as rounded, faintly luminous discs similar to the distant planets Uranus and Neptune. The picture was created from images through five different filters (F487N, F502N, F574M, F656N and F658N) that captured light emitted by different elements in the gaseous features. The total aggregate exposure time was 4000 seconds and the field of view is just 29 arcseconds across.
The dusty beauty of NGC 2082
The richly textured spiral galaxy NGC 2082 is found about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado (the Swordfish), deep in the southern sky. As seen here in a very detailed image from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, filaments of dark dust splay across NGC 2082's luminous curved arms and dense central bulge of stars. Hubble's sharp vision also reveals many of the individual bright blue stars dotting the galaxy's rather ragged spiral arms as well as many much more distant galaxies in the background.
This galaxy is faintly visible in backyard telescopes and was first recorded by Sir John Herschel during his visit to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa in the 1830s. NGC 2082 was also the host of a bright supernova that was spotted by the great visual supernova discoverer Rev R. Evans back in 1992.
This picture was created from images taken through blue and near-infrared filters (F435W and F814W) using the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys. The total exposure time was 19 minutes per filter and the field of view is about 2.2 x 1.6 arcminutes in size.
Messier 72, a celestial city from above
As the first in the new weekly series of spectacular images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Hubble Picture of the Week, ESA/Hubble presents a stunning image of an unfamiliar star cluster.
This rich collection of scattered stars, known as Messier 72, looks like a city seen from an airplane window at night, as small glints of light from suburban homes dot the outskirts of the bright city centre. Messier 72 is actually a globular cluster, an ancient spherical collection of old stars packed much closer together at its centre, like buildings in the heart of a city compared to less urban areas. As well as huge numbers of stars in the cluster itself the picture also captures the images of many much more distant galaxies seen between and around the cluster stars.
French astronomer Pierre Méchain discovered this rich cluster in August of 1780, but we take Messier 72's most common name from Méchain's colleague Charles Messier, who recorded it as the 72nd entry in his famous catalogue of comet-like objects just two months later. This globular cluster lies in the constellation of Aquarius (the Water Bearer) about 50 000 light-years from Earth.
This striking image was taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image was created from pictures taken through yellow and near-infrared filters (F606W and F814W). The exposure times were about ten minutes per filter and the field of view is about 3.4 arcminutes across.


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While past quizzes have focused on specific genre involving the National Park System, this is a more wide-open, undefined quiz of national park trivia. Answers are at the end.
1. True or False: Acadia National Park was the first "national park" established east of the Mississippi.
2. There are more masons employed by the National Park Service than
A. fisheries biologists
B. geologists
1. The photo accompanying this quiz shows Dark Hollow Falls in Shenandoah National Park. Dark Hollow Falls is a classic example of a
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b. plunge waterfall
c. cascade waterfall
d. block waterfall
2. The highest waterfall in North America is ______ at Yosemite National Park.
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b. Yosemite Falls
c. Sentinel Fall
d. Nevada Fall
1. There are four major types of volcanoes -- plug dome, shield volcano, cinder cone, and stratovolcano. Which Ring of Fire national park is one of the few areas of its size in the world that has all four types?
a. Lassen Volcanic National Park
b. Katmai National Park and Preserve
c. Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve
d. North Cascades National Park
1. The Lincoln Home National Historic Site is in
a. Lincoln City, Indiana
b. Springfield, Illinois
c. Hodgenville, Kentucky
d. Corbin, Kentucky
2. If you were to visit the only national historic site in Martinez, California, you could tour a historic home where ______ lived with his wife and family.
a. Aldo Leopold
b. John Muir
c. Joseph Wood Krutch
d. Jack London
1. Look at the photo accompanying this quiz. This gorgeous glaciated peak is Mount Shuksan, which is said to be one of the world's most photographed mountains. The aptly named lake in the foreground is Picture Lake. Picture Lake is on Mount Baker, and Mount Baker is a volcano in a mountain range that consists of volcanic peaks.
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Chinese characters are made up of strokes. Learning to write them involves not only learning where all the strokes go, but also the order in which they are supposed to be written and the direction of each individual stroke (left to right, up to down, etc.) The simplest character is yī (one), a single stroke written from left to right. The most complex character, biáng (above), is made up of 57 strokes.
This character occurs in the written form of biángbiáng miàn, or biangbiang noodles, a dish of wide, flat noodles popular in the Chinese province of Shaanxi.
The status of biáng as most complex requires a bit of qualification. The character is not found in dictionaries, and its origin appears to be whimsical: biáng is not a syllable in Standard Mandarin but an onomatopoeia for the sound of noodles slapping on the table as they are being made, or for the lip-smacking sound of people contentedly munching on them. There are different theories about how the character came to be, but the most plausible one is that the owner of a noodle shop made it up.
If obscure or little-used characters count, then one could make a case for zhé, an obsolete character of 64 strokes, that, appropriately enough, meant "verbose."
This character however, is just one single character (for long or "dragon") written four times. Biáng contains within it the characters for speak, horse, grow, moon, heart, knife, eight, roof, and walk, plus a few extra strokes, so though it might have fewer strokes, it has a lot more complexity.
For characters that do appear in modern dictionaries, the complexity winner seems to be nàng, a 36-stroke character referring to the sound your voice makes through a stuffed up nose.
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Biáng though, deserves to get the credit for its complexity. Though it is a highly atypical Chinese character, a case can be made for it being most "Chinese" of Chinese characters. As expert Sinologist Victor Mair says in this post at Language Log, "For me, biáng symbolizes the difficulty of accommodating the full fecundity of folk, popular, and local/regional cultures and languages within the bounds of the standard writing system, which enshrines the elite, high culture, and now also the bourgeois, urban, national culture. In other words, biáng is well-nigh bursting at the sides of the scriptal and phonetic boxes within which it is constrained."
Biáng. A local comfort food wrapped up, with a wink, in the ribbons of a 5000-year-old writing tradition. A lip-smacking, calligraphical good time.
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Isaiah Soucy, middle, credits Candia firefighter Bill Cormier, left, and Chief Dean Young, right, with encouraging his determination to become a firefighter. (BENJAMIN KLEIN/Union Leader Correspondent)
Soucy was the first responder on the scene in August when volunteer Candia firefighter Ryan Marion and his wife Celeste were seriously injured after the motorcycle they were on crashed when they were cut off by an oncoming motorist.
"For three minutes I was on my own, and when I responded I didn't know it was Ryan, that it was a friend of mine," he said. "I was actually coming back from an EMT class, and I got the go-ahead from Chief Young to render aid to the two of them until more help arrived."
"It's just remarkable that we would save him 13 years ago, and than he ends up saving one of us," Young said.
Marion and his wife suffered severe injuries, but they survived the wreck and are trying to recuperate.
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He said it gave him the drive to become a firefighter. When he was 14, Soucy began working with local firefighters through the Boy Scouts' Explorer program.
"Just because he can't do something like everyone else doesn't mean he can't do it, he just has to adapt, which he has done a great job of ...," Cormier said.
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MANCHESTER - Mason, a 9-year-old Italian mastiff, died Thursday after saving the lives of the owners of a Sheffield Road home that caught fire early Thursday, District Fire Chief Michael Gamache said.
"We're all pretty heartbroken," said Brooke Boudakian, whose father, Charles, owns the 475 Sheffield Road home that was destroyed Thanksgiving morning. "She was very loved. It was a pretty heroic thing that she did."
A cat also died in the blaze, which destroyed a garage before spreading to the home about 4 a.m. Thursday, Gamache said.
Gamache said the Fire Department has special breathing masks for animals that were donated by the company O2 Fur Life. The animals were found lying next to each other, he said.
"The animals were given oxygen and first aid on the front lawn, unfortunately both animals did not survive," Gamache said. "The pet dog who perished was credited with awakening the occupants of the home, in essence saving their lives."
Brooke Boudakian said she was 11 years old when her family brought Mason, who was one of 13 puppies in her litter, home in 2003.
"She loved playing outside with her toys. She also loved sleeping and loved going for rides," she said.
"She was an awesome dog. She was very protective, and she saved my dad's life," she said.
Gamache said Charles Boudakian and Rhonda LaFleur, the home's other occupant, tried to extinguish the blaze and called 911. They were not injured in the fire, he said.
The fire, which went undetected until Mason woke the occupants, "made significant headway into the home before enough resources arrived to stop the fire's forward progress into the home," Gamache said.
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Yates, being a godsend for Warner Bros. after taking over Harry Potter and, to incredible success, carried the series up to its finish line, really jumps out at first sight. Should anything make him a less-than-certain candidate, it would have to be his slightly-delayed Your Voice in My Head, a bizarre Doctor Who feature, and Cicero, a Tom Hardy-led trilogy chronicling the life of Al Capone. I think that, in regards to the lattermost, the question of a preferable choice is already answered. But he'd still be a solid pick, nonetheless.
Ross has been trying to find a suitable follow-up to The Hunger Games, with an actioner entitled The Secret Life of Houdini being a very distinct possibility. Any expectations one may have for that shouldn't be a factor, though; he's a director who really needs some deliberation before choosing a film. That, in and of itself, could hurt his chances with Tarzan.
White is clearly the dark horse, but a small payday that comes with her small profile makes her the most financially reasonable pick of the litter. We saw something like that happen with sequels to Thor and Captain America; Warner Bros., unlike Marvel Studios, aren't notoriously stringent on the financial side of things, but good work that comes at a cheap price is one hard-to-reject combination.
Or maybe it'll be none of them. We haven't a clue what the studio wants to do with Tarzan — or if they ever even bother to make the time and room for it — and any of these choices would, in one way or another, be a slight surprise for yours truly. It's something of a blessing that none of them would be unpleasant.
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it had reached bottom with the interest ratescare. EBAY's trend is upward with stepwise profittakings.I love this company....I mean thisstock.Wide swings in price to be expected againtommorow.If you can't take the heat get out ....go play withLU( down big time tommorow) or IBM.
under your various aliases. We know they're allthe same person.Anyway, Janus takes a stake inAMZN. Remind me again how that helps this pathetic EBAYstock? Re-read the story. It'sA M A Z O N...not E BA Y. They used to all rise together. Not any more.
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and later on Market Maker dumps while small time investor like we holds the bag
EBAY is valued at 46 cents!!! This isn't some fly-by-night web site valuing EBAY at.46, but a website by Quicken and Excite.Compare this to today's closing price of 891/4. I don't think I'll ride EBAY down to .46, but it will certainly see $55. The 'netstocks can no longer hold a sustained rally. Up one day, down even bigger the next. CheckEBAY'svalue:http://quicken.excite.com/investments/stkeval/?cmetric=intrinsic&histtim=ann&grtim=5yr&symbol=ebay&csym=IDTC&initearnec=-6%2C300%2C000&egrrbtn=dd&egrdd=1&egrec=&dcrrbtn=ec&dcrec=18.00&dcrdd=0
I dont see it? someone show me a chart that shows it is oversold.
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It's a casino game, and should be "played" as such. If you want to invest, go buy a mutual fund in real stocks.
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Chocolate Ice Cream Cone Lyrics - Rose Maddox
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My momma said if I'd be good she'd send me to the store.
She said she'd bake some gingerbread if I would sweep the floor.
She said if I would make the bed and watch the telephone
that she would send me out to get a chocolate ice cream cone.
And so I did the things she said and then she made some gingerbread.
Then I went out just me alone and got my chocolate ice cream cone.
While coming back I stumped my toe upon a big old stone.
Now need I tell you that I dropped my chocolate ice cream cone.
A little puppy came along and took and great big lick.
And then I hit that mean old dog with just a little stick.
And he bit me where I sit down
then he chased me all over town.
And now I'm lost, can't find my home.
And all because of that chocolate ice cream cone.
And all because of that chocolate ice cream cone.
And all because of that chocolate, chocolate, chocolate ice cream cone.
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My great grandmother sang this to me as a little girl. she use to sit me down hold my hand and we would sing it together. I loved so much we would always sing it twice!
Wow! It IS a real song! | Reviewer: Robyn Cannedy | 7/1/14
My mom sang this to ME too. I loved it so much, image in my mind of little me sitting on a tree stump, lost after the whole ordeal! Then deciding I better get up and find my way home! HaHa. My first (only) child was born in '91, mom named her. Mom Sang the song to her right away and all the time. I asked where she knew it from but she didn't recall...?? Mom died when my daughter was 4 months old. I sang the song every night to my daughter in mom's memory. It's awesome to find that so many others have deep connections to this song too! Thanks!
favorite childhood memory of my dad- | Reviewer: Andrea Bennett | 6/25/14
When I was a little girl, I use to beg my dad to sing this song (and play it on his guitar) and he would and then I would cry because I was worried about the little boy being lost. Then I would beg him to sing it again! haha! I dont know why, but I just loved hearing my Dad sing and play this song, even though it made me sad. He was a very talented musician, he could sing, play guitar and piano. Then he had a stroke 16 years ago, paralizing his left side of his body and right side of his face, and he lost that beautiful singing voice and the ability to play his beloved guitar. He still sings, though not as well, and He can still play the piano with his right hand, so I am thankful for that, it is still music to my ears! He is in a nursing home now, and plays the organ there sometimes. I recently video taped him singing this song again, although we couldnt remember all the words, so I was glad I found this website with the words to help us. Now I have a video of him singing it to me that will last me a lifetime. Thank you so much for this song, and a wonderful childhood memory!
KSMN RADIO STATION MASON CITY IOWA | Reviewer: Diana Moeller | 3/13/14
In 1962 I was 8 years old. My mother Leona was contracted and preformed live with her band on KSMN RADIO in Mason City Iowa on Saturdays. My sister and I each sang a song. I sang My Chocolate Ice Cream Cone. It was recorded by a band member's wife. I would love to have that recording. I don't know where to locate her. I have a vivid memory of singing the song live. I don't think KSMN recorded their live shows.
great memories | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/7/13
So glad I found all the words. One of my favorites from childhood. Daddy used to sing this to us and then to the grandkids. I love this. I sang it to my girls and now to my grandkids.
My dad sang this to us | Reviewer: Scott | 5/28/13
My dad used to sing this to us all the time. I sing it to my kids all the time. They act annoyed, but I know they will sing it to their children also. I always thought of the person in the song as being a little boy. It never entered my mind that it might be a little girl.
Good memories | Reviewer: Jaime | 5/19/13
My Mom used to sing me this song all the time when I was little. She died a few years ago and this song makes me remember all of our car trips and her singing this song. I used to cry at the end when the doggy bit the little girl and my mom would add extra versees where the doggy and the little girl lived happily ever after. I am so glad I found the lyrics to this song so I can sing it to my own little girl.
In memory of my mom Glenna Shipley | Reviewer: Peach | 5/1/13
I remember my mom singing this to me as a kid then she sang it to my daughter when she was younger.. Brings back a flood of memories. My mom passed away April 16, 2013 but I still hear her singing this song to me... I Miss her so much already
in memory of travis fry | Reviewer: Ashley Evans | 4/24/13
Travis was a dead friend of the family who passed away a few days ago. Hewas always so funny and great with kids a wonderful father and man. My.kids.would always beg him to sing this song when he was around and did it with such animation. Travis will be missed by many.
Chocolate Ice Cream Cone | Reviewer: Jan Anderson | 3/28/13
Love this song, happy memorie from my childhood, jsut a happy part of my life from childhood thr grandchild. Funstuff. Thank you Rose Maddox! Just by chance do you have the second verse? I have bits and pieces - the little kid finds his way back home with the help of a policeman. As I grew up I came to understand to respect and trust the police. To me this song had a message.
A Song Through Generations | Reviewer: Beka | 3/7/13
This song was sung to my grandmother when she was little, then to my father, and to me. I do plan on passing it down to my future children. It was just one of the best memories of my childhood..
My Pa Pa | Reviewer: Tabatha Zachary | 12/9/12
OMG cant beleive i actually found these words on line. My grandpa used to sing this song to me and my brothers and all my cousins. Ican remember as a child taking road trips and my grandpa singing this song and the old lady that swallowed a fly and there once was a farmer. we have a video at a family reunion where all the kids in the whole Davidson family was sitting around my grandpa about 20+kids and he sang this song to all. Ive tried to sing this song to my kids and could not remember all the word to the song. This sight just really made my day . I love you Grandpa!!!!
My dad used to sing this. :) | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/28/12
I can't believe i actually found these lyrics! My brothers and i always thought our dad had came up with song. Guess we were wrong lol :) My dad has been home 5 years now and everytime i think about him this song pops in my head. He would always sing this to us and it is one of my best, out of many, memories. I can't wait to share this song with my nieces and my future children. Thanks so much!
Sweet Memories | Reviewer: Sarah | 7/24/12
I am a 74 years old and I guess I was about 5 years old when I hear this song on the radio for the first time.I don't remember hearing this very many times but somhow I learned the words. I have sung these lyrics to each of my childern, grandchildern and great-grandchildern.
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Best Buy launches cloud music service with silly restrictions
Not to be outdone by Apple, Google, or Amazon, Best Buy has decided to launch their own music service. The service, called Best Buy Music Cloud, allows users to upload their music and access it via computer, phone, or tablet. While it's nice to see Best Buy at least making an attempt to keep up with other music services, their system comes with a number of restrictions and caveats.
Best Buy's cloud system gives users the choice between two options, free or premium. The free package allows access to the web player only. If a free account holder accesses their account via a phone they can only listen to 30 seconds of each of their tracks. This is kind of baffling especially considering Amazon and Apple are both offering free versions of their services, providing streaming access to phones and tablets. What's more, the free version is the only one accessible on Apple devices. The website explicitly states "Premium service is not available on Apple devices."
The premium service will run you $3.99 a month and will allow you to listen to your full tracks on a mobile device (instead of just a 30 second clip). What the website doesn't make clear is how much storage the free version provides and what you get for the $3.99/month premium version aside from the actual ability to listen to your full tracks.
Even more offensive than the 30 second restriction on the free version is the necessity to use iTunes. You read that correctly, the software will only interact with iTunes for music uploads. Once the small application is installed (either on Mac OS or Windows) it will look for your iTunes folder and scan that. If you don't have iTunes installed or choose to manage your music with another application (which you should probably be doing on Windows), you are completely out of luck. There is no option to upload from a Windows Media Player folder. Also absent is the option to just select a folder of music for upload.
Unfortunately that doesn't end the list of drawbacks. Another issue is the inability to install the Android app for the service. It seems that currently only certain phones will allow the app to be installed. What's even more frustrating is that you'll have to register the phone via Best Buy's web interface for Music Cloud before installing the app. After those two things are accomplished, Best Buy will apparently send an email or text to the phone to activate it for the service. It's ridiculously frustrating to try and get things working with Best Buy's service, especially considering how simple and smooth the process is for Amazon's cloud service.
The restrictions on the free version and the necessity of having iTunes installed makes this service completely useless for the time being. Unless Best Buy can offer a smoother interface, more options for uploading, free accessibility of your library on a mobile device, and more storage than competitors, there's just no reason to even bother with this service over Amazon, Apple, or Google. If Best Buy can't make Music Cloud more on par with what's already on the market, it's not even something worth exploring.
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- olddancer
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- Posted on: 24 Jun 11 18:42
- Blu-rayFreak
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- Posted on: 24 Jun 11 19:06
Originally Posted by olddancer
See what happens when you hire ex-postal employees to run your company.
I don't know why anyone would use Best Buy Cloud Music over Amazon or Google with those crazy restrictions and limitations. I predict a huge fail for Best Buy Cloud Music...
- rj_wilson
- New Member
- Posted on: 04 Sep 11 23:32
- justcallmebob
- MyCE Resident
- Posted on: 06 Sep 11 22:21
- AllanDeGroot
- MyCE Resident
- Posted on: 16 Sep 11 19:57
Especially considering that the programmers at apple proved they were lazy in the way they have designed iTunes to organize (or more precisely NOT organize) music files.
The people at BestBuy should apply for jobs at Apple, they'd fit right in what with their talent for unfathomable illogic.
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Before I get into the Kevin Love conversation, which might take a while, first let's ask a question: What happens with the Warriors' rotation when David Lee is healthy?
Hard to say; I'd guess Steve Kerr–who has said publicly he has no rule on guaranteeing injured starters their jobs back–will just deal with it on a game-to-game basis, but there will definitely be a minutes-crunch at power forward and Lee is a guy who likes to play a ton of minutes with the first unit.
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Mo Speights is mainly the back-up center and Kerr gets Harrison Barnes extra minutes by playing him at PF with the second unit.
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|Fri, 03-20-2009 - 4:11pm
It's time to go through my husband's clothes and get rid of everything he will never wear again. He had gastric bypass and has lost 107 pounds, and gone from a 48 waist to a 36 waist. His jeans are going to Goodwill, along with anything else that is over big, and I can pry out of his hands. lol
Okay, so my question is do you go with the 6 month rule? The one that says anything you haven't worn in more than 6 months goes, do you wait for a year, or do you ignore it and think "one day I will wear that again"?
I'm going to remove anything from my dresser and closet that I haven't worn in 6 months. Okay, so I have
|Fri, 03-20-2009 - 5:16pm
I don't go by any particular rule, just clean out on a whim. I have a sack right now destined for Goodwill. It's full of jeans, yoga pants and other kinds of knit pants that either don't fit or I just don't wear anymore. I tend to end up with a lot of duplicate items and they just take up space. I have about 5 pairs of the same brand/fit of jeans in different colors that I like but how many do I really need? I'll keep a black pair and maybe a blue pair.
|Fri, 03-27-2009 - 4:21pm
Congrats to your husband for losing so much weight. Thats wonderful!
I dont follow that 6 month rule either. I've been the same size my whole adult life except when I was pregnant with my 2 children.
I'm 5'9" & 118 #s so finding clothes to fit is really hard.
For example my jeans are 26 X 34 so I keep my jeans until they fall apart HA HA.
I wouldnt follow any "rule" so to speek, but if you have not worn it in a long time then you'll probably never wear it so get rid of it.
As for your husband, I'd get rid of everything that he wore before he lost the weight because hes never going to be able to wear those clothes again unless he gains the 107 back.
Have fun going through the closets & shopping for new clothes :)