Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Could spoil the entire afternoon ....




Hubble: Images of V838 Mon

(Update: definitely follow the link: this was originally an animated GIF showing the expanding plasma shell. I dunno why it doesn't work on Blogger.)
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:15 PM, January 04, 2006

    Beautiful.

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  2. Anonymous10:25 PM, January 04, 2006

    SPF 6,000,000 should be about right.

    Fred

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  3. Eric6:11 AM, January 05, 2006

    Yowza. I have read some commentary that posits that life in the universe, while common, never gets particularly far, because all sorts of natural disasters keep pruning it.

    Look at the Permian extinction(s) to see how close Earth came to losing it.

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  4. Anonymous8:53 AM, January 05, 2006

    All the reason we'ev gotta get out of this solar system,asap!

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  5. Richard Lawrence Cohen3:01 PM, January 05, 2006

    Tony's right. That's what it's all about.

    BTW, I linked to the image but I kept getting distracted by the image to the right of it.

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