Thursday, September 10, 2009

'Celestial Butterfly'

A refurbished image from the Hubble of a dieing star has a resemblance to a 'Celestial Butterfly'.

Picture embedded below. (from http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2629817/Hubbles-best-picture-yet.html)

Hum-winger ... streams of pink and red gas look like fragile insect wings

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/ero/index.html

"What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour -- fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes!"

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