Photo: Courtesy of Etsuko Ichikawa
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Bubble Nebula
What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, ghostly apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply as The Bubble Nebula. Astronomer Eric Mouquet's striking view utilizes a long exposure with hydrogen alpha light to reveal the intricate details of this cosmic bubble and its environment. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Seen here above and right of the Bubble's center is a bright hot star embedded in reflecting dust. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star, which likely has a mass 10 to 20 times that of the Sun, has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The intriguing Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia.
*Original image and text excerpted from Astronomy Picture of the Day:
http://www.astronet.ru/db/xware/msg/1216927
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
a brazilian priest accidentally ascends to heaven with balloons
Photo released by the Brazilian website UOL, shows Catholic priest Adelir Antonio de Carli, 42, flying on bottom of a cluster of brightly colored party balloons in Paranagua, Brazil, April 20, 2008. Rescuers reached the balloons floating in the ocean off Brazil’s coast Tuesday, but did not find the priest who had been using them in a bid to set a flight record and raise funds for his parish.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Vanitas Still Life with Portrait
DAVID BAILLY
Dutch, 1584-1657
Vanitas Still Life with Portrait, ca. 1650
Oil on canvas. 37 1/4 x 45 3/4 in. (95 x 116 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis V. Keeler, Class of 1911, by exchange. 86.6
original source
Chain of Bubbles
discovered by Professor Igor Kliakhandler of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Michigan Technological University USA
Original Source here
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