Heavenly Bodies

[Stella_Omega]

Two links to share today:
Aleksey Marina Spectacular Slavic women-- with a rather irritating flash presentation that makes it hard to browse, sadly... look for the teensy weensy "nu" link

and today's Astrology Picture Of The Day http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110701.html talks about the early days of the Hubble, and the sightings that first showed us other galaxies.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Yum, lots of fetish-y images there. The big blue necktie really got my attention!

 

[SweetMaj]

The girl in the purple liquid dress, really got my attention. WOW !!!

 

[SydneyBlake]

I was killing myself trying to find the big blue necktie and the liquid purple dress in the Hubble images. Then I realized you gave 2 links, the first of which doesn't work on my iPhone.

I'm missing out on something good, I bet. Sigh.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I was killing myself trying to find the big blue necktie and the liquid purple dress in the Hubble images. Then I realized you gave 2 links, the first of which doesn't work on my iPhone.

I'm missing out on something good, I bet. Sigh.

You really are. When you get to a computer...
The damn site is in flash, so I can't link to pics.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

What bugs me is that they show that they do calendars but don't give any hint on how to buy one!

 

[SydneyBlake]

To borrow from Wayne's World...

That is a babe. She makes me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

And the one with the black spotted gauze . . .
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/bears/howling-bear_2945.jpg

 

[SeaCat]

#10 under nu is rather striking.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

Hey Bear,

Try here.

http://www.calendars.alekseymarina.com/maine.html

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Hey Bear,

Try here.

http://www.calendars.alekseymarina.com/maine.html

Cat

Oh, I saw that. But notice that there's no way to order one? I think you have to be a business and want ten thousand at a whack or something.

 

[Handley_Page]

This happens once every 3000 years, according to NASA.

Make a wish in "the Eye of God":-

 

[Stella_Omega]

This happens once every 3000 years, according to NASA.

Make a wish in "the Eye of God":-

Looks like god is wishing for some Visine

What is it? what event are we seeing here?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

It's the Helix Nebula.

 

[stephen55]

Looks like god is wishing for some Visine

What is it? what event are we seeing here?

The event you are seeing here is the reason you exist. It is the reason Earth exists. Joni Mitchell once sang, "We are stardust..." Or as Carl Sagan once said, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

Just a few moments after the Big Bang, the universe consisted of the elements hydrogen, helium and a trace of lithium (along with a few isotopes of hydrogen and helium). Everything else, all of the other elements that we see today simply wasn't there. All elements heavier than lithium such as carbon, oxygen, nitrogen etc. (up to iron) have been synthesized in the core of the nuclear furnaces that we call stars. (Elements heavier than iron can't be created in the nuclear core of a main sequence star but are created in the hyper-intense temperatures and pressures of a star going nova or supernova.)

A planetary nebula is one way that stars have of giving up their metals. (To an astronomer or astrophysicist, all elements heavier than helium are metals.) All of the heavy elements that go into making us and our planet at one time were locked up inside a star. The star has to explode in one fashion or another, in order for those elements to be given out into space and then somehow recollect into a cloud of gas and dust that can go on to form a new star and (in our case) a planetary system.

Everything in you and around you, apart from hydrogen and helium, is residue from some star that long ago went nova or supernova, casting out into space the metals that it formed at it's nuclear core and those metals formed by the nova or supernova itself.

We truly are made of stardust, or as Carl Sagan said, star stuff...the stuff of stars.