DARE TO THINK

11:37:43 AM EDT
Feeling Hopeful
Hearing Lamb (chill.com radio)

So what hasn't been said about July 20th, 1969? 

                           

It is the 35th anniversary of Apollo 11's historic adventure and all that can be said about a subject has been said about this.  Except one thing, perhaps:

                  

Mr. Armstrong, a fine astronaut, must've had a ton of butterflies as he extended that leg and foot onto the lunar surface.  The exact quote he was supposed to use is:

"ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND."

                                  

He forgot the "a" and although no one really noticed or cared, it does take something from the original meaning.  Anyway, it was a time of energetic hopes and awed inspiration.  And finally, we're going back.  

                      

                                          Heroes

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6:32:46 AM EDT
Feeling Confident
Hearing Sarabeth Tucek (chill.com radio)

    It's about time we had something

                www.4ALLofUS.com

I put it to you, friends of JL, would you set a wrong to right if you could?  What about acts of deception going on for ages - that's lying - would you shine a light and open the door to the truth?  Simple truth.  Stand up for what's decent and right for all peoples, everywhere.  Make a case for what's humane.  FAIR  PLAY FOR ALL. 

If you saw a man beating a small child on the sidewalk you'd propel yourself into the situation, probably place your body between the bully and the baby, make a difference, who knows maybe save the child's life. An act of decency.  ACTION.

On the other hand, when a postage stamp goes up because Congressman feel they need another half million $ raise, you'd not only do nothing, you'd pay it.  No choice, right?  Not quite.

           

There is always a choice. 

You have a free will to make your own choices. 

Others are making them for you. 

4ALLofUS is looking for solutions. 

              

4ALLofUS is a group of people who believe the world is in an awful, unacceptabloe state, who are tired of being lied to by politicians, powers-that-be, those with money to continue their deceit, corruption and fouling of the earth, the death, hate, poverty...ENOUGH!  These good folks gathered together and proclaimed their intent:  to make CHANGE.  They mean it.  I belong to this group and feel very proud to, so please take a tour:

                  www.4ALLofUS.com

That's the website.  Here's something easier, a video that explains a few basics visually.  You will see the truth-images of death, destruction, extreme poverty, bigotry, terror.  You will see the truth.  You can also choose not to bother.           http://www.youtube.com/v/E-OUECBT7HY&hl=en&fs=1%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam    

But I ask you to READ the information on this site, especially the Aims and Ethos, all explained and made very clear.  It costs nothing and means so much.  INVOLVEMENT.  Register and be able to post your own views and comments on topics in the Forums or open your own topic for discussion about something you feel strongly about.  I just can't see how anyone wouldn't want to know more - DO MORE.

                        Do anything. 

There's nothing political so much as the loss of decency and FAIR-PLAY that 4ALLofUS is trying to focus on.  That it exists in the political arena is nothing new, these outrages go on day after day everywhere - for too long. 

You have a voice - you have a choice.  Use it! 

                www.4ALLofUS.com  

                  

                                UNITY                                            

    

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6:03:58 PM EDT
Feeling Pleased
Hearing chill.com radio

If you're in Europe or Asia you know a total Solar Eclipse is headed your way August 1st.  Eastern Canada will also get a view.

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Just look at that alignment of Mars, Saturn and Regulus tonight!  You remember Regulus, the tail of the lion constellation, Leo.  Venus is still very bright in the glow of sunset. 

Here's something to look for: Find the Big Dipper then look for the handle which will have the star Mizar and its companion star, Alcor, visible with binocs.  Draw a line through them and it takes you directly to VEGA in the easterly sky, the brightest star directly overhead.      

Saturday, Jupiter's Red Spot will transit, or cross, the planet's meridian at 10:02 PM, EDT.  It will appear pale-orange but you'll see it.  It will continue to transit, or pass across the surface, every 10.5 hours (10:20 to 20:14).                

Sunday, if you're up at 11:00 PM, EDT, look for the Great Square of Pegasus looming up in the east - an early foreshadowing of Fall.  It'll be a bit bigger than your fist held at arm's length.              

Monday, Red Spot transits at 11:40 PM, EDT.    

Tuesday, my favorite moon, Io, belonging to Jupiter, will disappear behind its western limb at 10:05 PM, EDT.  It will reappear out of the eclipse of Jupiter's shadow, easterly, at 12:41 AM, EDT, early Wednesday morning.

Wednesday, another transit of the Red Spot at 1:18 AM, EDT, early Thursday morning.  What else are you doing at that hour anyway?  Sleeping?  Get up, make a cuppa, go outside, have a look.

Thursday, the modest but long-lasting Delta Aquarid meteor shower is strongest.  Look in southern latitudes before dawn.

Friday, last-quarter Moon, 2:42 PM, EDT.

Saturday, transit of Red Spot, 10:48 PM, EDT.

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This time belongs to Jupiter.  An historical first, astonomers have witnessed the birth of a new "red spot" or storm, on the giant planet, which is located half a billion miles away.                 

The new storm is roughly half the diameter of its bigger cousin, the Giant red spot storm.  It is believed the new spot is the result of major climatic changes on Jupiter. 

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Basics courtesy of JPL, NASA, Science Daily, star maps, Gryphon.   

                  

 

 

 

 

 

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4:46:48 PM EDT
Feeling Anxious
Hearing chill.com radio

Both dangerous and awe-ful, amazing and still able to blind you if not careful - the first TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN since 2006 is headed our way for August 1st.

                    

The above partial eclipse was made using metal-covered glass solar filters.  Gazing at the Sun, eclipse or not, is dangerous but more so at the time of an eclipse, as you're prone to keep gazing for a length of time you wouldn't normally do.  That's how the optical damage occurs.

More than a billion people will get to see a bite taken out of the Sun that day.  From sunrise on the northeastern fringes of North America, to sunset in China, Korea and Southeast Asia, a partial eclipse of the Sun sweeps across a wide area of the world.  But there's more, of course.

                

Remember February's lunar eclipse, phases shown above?  We'll also be getting a PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE later in August.  The shadow of the Earth will be cast onto the moon once again, visible. 

Heads up in August.    

 

 

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9:23:15 PM EDT
Feeling Betrayed
Hearing chill.com radio

How do you talk about something so visceral?  But if you don't bring something into the light, it'll stay hidden and dangerous, so I venture forth:

You know how easily children are diagnosed as having ADHD and perhaps your child has been that route, might even take Ritalin for the so-called symptoms.  A few things you may want to know:

For every child "labelled and drugged" as it's called, that school receives subsidies, extra funding, from both the State and Fed.

Once a child has been diagnosed, they are considered mentally ill according to the physician's bible, DSM-4.  Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of disorders.

If you've taken Ritalin for 12 years, you are not eligible for military service, ever.  This may be a hidden blessing but still...

Ritalin, a stimulant, an amphetamine, can actually produce the symtoms for which it advertises relief.  The DEA says publically, after strident research, that there is no difference in affect between the so-called normal child and the medicated one.  Meaning, Ritalin makes no difference in either child.  But it's toxic.

Yes, toxic.  Parents have buried their children because of Ritalin and other psychotropic drugs.  And how does drugging a child help them form intelligent opinions about medications?  Most likely, that a prescription is the answer to just about anything that bothers you.  Young adults given Ritalin as kids are highly prone to drug abuse.  Here, read this and be informed.  It was set up by parents who had to bury their child.

http://www.ritalindeath.com

 

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5:07:21 PM EDT
Feeling Enlightened
Hearing Aaron Copeland

         

A little girl from England gave it its name, and Walt Disney was so taken by its discovery he named a cartoon character after it.  The discovery of Pluto, Roman god of the underworld because it is perpetually in the dark, caused a tremendous stir.  The artist's rendition above shows Pluto with the shadow of one of its moons, Charon, passing on the left.  Before it was truly seen in 1930, four other objects just like it were discovered, and categorized as ice dwarfs, meaning not big enough to be planets, and consisting mostly of rock and ice.  Pluto is a "dwarf planet" composed of 70% rock and 30% ice, with a poisonously cold atmosphere of which little is known, except it holds nitrogen, carbonmonoxide and methane.  It's freezing out there.  But don't think it was "downgraded" because it's no longer considered a planet.  It is now far more interesting and mysterious.  Ice dwarfs are the most populous objects in space, and 4 billion years ago they helped to form Earth by bringing it the matter from which our planet is made - water, for one.  Water also arrived here via comets.   

              Look how small Pluto and Charon are !!     

Pluto, if it were closer to the sun, would behave like a comet as its ice melted in an erratic orbit.  Its present orbit is eccentric, in fact as the smallest object in our star-sol system, it rotates in reverse of the 8 planets.  It even interferes within the orbit of Neptune.  Pluto has always been thought to have one satellite (moon) called Charon, another mythological character - the ferryman of the River Styx.  But there may be others.  We've discovered at least two, seen in the picture below.

      

Pluto revolves around the sun ONCE EVERY 248 YEARS!  This dwarf planet is the subject of incredible curiosity, and guess what:  it takes NINE YEARS to get there and WE'RE ON THE WAY!!  At over 10 miles a second!  A voyage back in time.  And we only get one chance.   

                 

This is "NEW HORIZONS" our satellite probe, as it made its flyby in 2007 past Jupiter to pick up speed.  Back then I posted about it Jupiter Flyby This Morning New Horizons was launched in 2006 and as it makes its 9-year journey to Pluto, will gather information about our star-sol system previously unknown.  Out by Neptune is an area called the Kuiper Belt, of which Pluto was thought to be a part because of its small size.  As you see below, "Xena" was thought to be our 10th "planet".

            

NASA's New Horizons will study everything from Earth to Pluto to the Kuiper Belt and beyond.  It is the fastest craft ever launched, and when it passed Jupiter in February of 2006, the Jovian gravity accelerated it away from the sun by an additional 9,000 miles per hour.  That pushed it up to 52,000 mph as it hurls towards Pluto, expected to reach it by July of 2015.  Even if we blow up the Earth, New Horizons will go on and on and on.....After passing Jupiter, NH began sending back its precious data in March.  This incredible craft has undergone a full range of system and instrument checkouts, callibrations, software enhancements, and propulsive maneuvers to adjust its trajectory accurately.  The image below is what NH sees of Pluto.  Just LOOK at all this!!

                         

We expect to stay five months at Pluto and its (now) 3 moons, conducting geological experiments, mapping the surface, temperature and atmospheric studies, you name it.  But it will extend its mission into the ancient, rocky, icy, planetary building blocks of the Kuiper Belt.  Just amazing.  Fantastic.  The information we retrieve will form the foundation of future missions.  Below is an artist's conception of Pluto and Charon. 

                

Below is a launch photo of January 19, 2006.

                 

Digital image of Pluto below.  Right now, Pluto is in the stage all planets once went through, but hasn't gone as far, hence its corrected category.  I can't help wondering what the sophisticated cameras of NH will reveal - will these electro-magnetic spectrum eyes show us ice caps? mountains? craters?  The study of this world will most definitely re-write much of what we know of our star-sol system, indeed our galaxy, how it formed, and what's ahead.   

                   

Basics courtesy of NASA, Science Daily, JPL, NHWS, Gryphon.

        

               

 

                    

 

 

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9:14:11 AM EDT
Feeling Energetic
Hearing Viva la Vida

                 HAPPY

          INDEPENDENCE

                 DAY ! !

         

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1:49:03 PM EDT
Feeling Fabulous
Hearing Moscos Missive

 Who would do such a thing?

There I am, a wide-eyed innocent over-excited, imaginative but mostly HUNGRY 8-year old who just found the hidden jelly donuts.  Oh joy of joys!  I quietly jam my dirty little hand into the box and grab a donut, then take off like nobody's business!  And of course, I know I won't get caught ...

            

Safely hidden in "my forest" ( since I played in it so much I assumed I owned it ) I'm just sitting on a rock pondering the now-squished baked delight.  Should I eat the jelly first, like you're supposed to if you're under 10?  Or should I take polite little nibbles at the cake part until I hit the hidden gooey surprise?  What to do....decisions!  I go ahead and bite down right in the center.

EMPTY!  WHAT????  Nothing!  Hey where's the gooey jelly, huh?  What's this crapola?  What a gip!  Boy I'm red as boiled lobster and just as pissed.  This is no way to treat a brave kid like me, who risked life and limb to steal this precious treat!  WHERE'S THE DAMN JELLY!!!!????

                               

Somehow, after about 10 seconds of deep thought, I decided the big people had something to do with it.  The grown-ups.  The know-it-alls.  The donut-hiders.  The make-you-do-stupid-homework people.  Well I'll show them.  With the mutant donut safely stuck into my kids-jeans back pocket, I sneak back to the house - where THEY live.  The big people.  I dive from tree to tree back to the house, thinking no one can see me.  a HA hahaha!  So clever ....

              

O look, there's Uncle Fred's dumb smelly car, the green one.  I hate that car.  It smells like a dirty t-shirt.  I'm too curious about everything, so of course I open the door.  I see nothing of interest.  I dart my eyes to and fro, then silently slam the door shut.  Now onto my real business ....

                         

Into the house, by way of the garage - no one'll see me hahahaha....but wait!  I hear big-people talking upstairs somewhere.  My ears "move" to adjust to the direction of the sound (convinced I'm a bat).  It's coming from the living room.  Okay, no problem, I can still get this donut back in the box.

                                  

But what's this???  I spy a pair of new-looking brown shoes on the landing of the stairs.  Hm.  Interesting.  They smell like a dirty t-shirt.  Hey!  Must be Uncle Fred's shoes!!  Now my plan is forming along nicely.  I put my hand to my mouth to keep from laughing out loud.  a HAAAAAA!!!!

                                  

Reaching into my back pocket I grab as much as the crumbled un-jellied donut I can, I push it into Uncle Fred's shoe.  It goes in nice and...hey what's this?  It's sticky!  Like....o no, like JELLY!  But, hey I thought...I didn't taste any jelly before, what the....o crapola there's jelly everywhere now.  All over the place, inside these new smelly shoes, not fair!  NOT FAIR I think to myself.  I didn't get the good jelly part when I bit it, what IS this weird donut???  Now I've done it.  Now I'm done for.

                           

With smushed jelly and cake in Uncle Fred's new shoes, I rush down the stairs and out the back door, run to my forest and my rock where I sit like "The Thinker"   trying to work out what mischief to do next.  I picture Uncle Fred putting his new shoes on, then....squishhhh!  Then, "CATHERINE!  GET IN THIS HOUSE RIGHT NOWWWWW!" 

Waiting for the end of the world, I sit there and think, "Hey wait...." and it comes to me, like a flash of stupidity, only I of course, think it's genius.

                       

I'll just blame my brother!  Yeah that's it, I'll blame my brother and it'll be all over, what a great idea!  My nutty kid-mind thinks this'll actually work.  I run home to tell my Mother how I saw my brother put a jelly donut in Uncle Fred's new shoes.  O I'm so kewl,  so smart, so.....huh?  what's this?

Mother, brother, other brother, sisters, and smelly Uncle Fred are all laughing as Mom dries one of his shoes - THE shoe.  What's this odd scene, I didn't plan on this!  Hm.  Should I just slip out?  Mom looks over at me, smiling:        

"O Catherine look at this, isn't it funny?  Uncle Fred dropped a donut into his new shoe, isn't he silly?"   

Everyone was laughing like kids.  Well, they WERE kids.  Laughing like loons.  I didn't get it.

                           

Uncle Fred looks directly at me:

"Well Cathy dear, see what happens when you don't watch what you're doing?  How silly of me!  Gotta be more careful, wouldn't you say?" 

                      

HE KNOWS!  I KNOW he knows.  He knows I did it.  My brain actually HURTS.  He's trying to tell me something but I don't get it.  Actually it took about 20 years before I DID get it but now I know the guy was just being a sport and if I could just see him now, I'd say:

"Uncle Fred, thanks for saving my hide, and by the way, I LOVE the way your shoes smell!"   

                                   

                  

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11:48:38 AM EDT
Feeling Enlightened
Hearing Radiohead

Let me tell you what a star is.  (I have a good reason lol).  This is the area of space known as M24 (M for Messier) and the uncountable stars in this one tiny piece of the universe.   

            Globular star-cluster

Stars are cosmic energy-engines that produce heat, light, ultraviolet rays, x-rays, and other forms of radiation.  They are composed largely of gas and plasma, which is a super-heated state of matter composed of subatomic particles.  Three out of every four stars exist as part of a binary system, with two mutually orbiting stars. 

         baby stars

Now that we have that done, next year, say mid-2009, a star that has baffled scientists for years will eclipse.  This is the star called Epsilon Aurigae which is a third-magnitude, F-type SUPER-GIANT locked in a grouping of three other stars.  It is found in the constellation Auriga, "The Charioteer" and is a binary star that last eclipsed during 1982-1984. 

 exploding star

     

The Epsilon Aurigae system is the most interesting and startling system, puzzling astronomers for over 150 years.  There's many reasons but here's a big one:

            

                  light-echoes from a super-giant

The eclipse takes TWO YEARS to complete, every 27.1 years.  This means its mass must be gigantic.  There has been no satisfactory explanation for this, and what makes it even more exciting is there seems to be a "mid-eclipse" brightening.  How can that be??   There's one explnation - remember what I said in the description of what a star is?  Okay so, since the eclipsing body, Epsilon, is a giant cloud of gases enclosing two small stars orbiting each other, perhaps they sweep out a giant area in the middle - like a donut.  A very BIG donut.

Here's where the constellation is:

                    

This is the constellation Auriga.  The star Epsilon Aurigae is found in the upper right.  I'd suggest getting a nice pair of binocs before next spring!  Imagine, a star eclipsing, and taking two years to do it.   

              

         A mile-wide asteroid streaking across stars

              

Space Area M51 with progenitor star - can you see it in the upper right, very bright?  A progenitor is a "creator" star, the origin of the mass that exists in its near-space. 

                

                           More very young stars

                

                 Remnant of a star gone super-nova

                

                                    Spiral Galaxy M100

                   

                  

                               Multi-generational stars

             

            

                     Light echoes from exploding star

                

                                       Star Cluster

              

Usually called "The Eye of God" this is the Helix Nebula, a gaseous envelope being expelled by a Dying Star

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Pictures courtesy of Hubble

                   

 

 

 

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11:21:42 AM EDT
Feeling Thoughtful
Hearing Mozart

            

Imagine it's the 1800's and a cowboy is riding his horse across the plains of Montana.  A buddy rides up to tell him he's heard that people are inventing ways to move faster, get around quicker.  Now, that cowboy is imagining a faster HORSE or faster STAGE COACH, he's not imaging a Boeing 747 no less even a Model T car - how could he?  His idea of "fast" is confined to what he already knows can move along at some speed.  Horses. 

                 

Jump ahead to now, where people say alien craft from other galaxies, or even from a planet in THIS one, have travelled here many times, watched us, perhaps left something of their visits behind.  Many would argue that no interstellar craft could possibly make a journey of hundreds of thousands of miles, over such vast amounts of space, and if they could they would've had to start eons ago, maybe far over 10,000 years in the past. 

                

So I put it to that argument, that those folks are only seeing "speed" as they know it exists in this world, this dimension.  Speed and force used in the Space Shuttle lift-off rockets, perhaps.  We really have no idea of what "speed" might mean to an alien life form of far more advanced technology and intellect than humans.  Who knows what such a civilization could've conquered in the way of what constitutes "movement" and the relation of that to the space-time continuum.   

               

Many respected astronomers believe space contains "worm holes" through which a properly outfitted craft can navigate, and come out the other side in another galaxy.  Kind of like a super-sonic space tunnel.  A short-cut from the Milky Way to Andromeda, our nearest galaxy.  Instead of taking 10,000 years it takes only 1 thousand.  Which brings me to this: 

                    

 WHY?  Why would an advanced civilization in another part of the Universe, after finding abundant but very simple carbon-based life on this one planet in this tiny star(solar)system, in this one single galaxy, WHY would they want to come here?  What would they gain?  And if curiosity plays a role (making them more human than not) couldn't they have examined our world and its inhabitants in other ways, I mean if a being is that advanced to have conquered inter-stellar travel, perhaps somehow bending time itself, wouldn't they have safer ways to observe this planet than flying overheard in saucer-shaped objects?  I can't help but think they know all about radio-astronomy, about satellites, and most certainly, inter-stellar speed.

                 

And how much different would outerspace life be from us?  Instead of thriving on water, alien life might live in a sea of liquid methane.  Or instead of getting energy from a sun-star, they might thrive on hydrochloric acid.  Right now, Titan, one of Saturn's moons, is the most likely place we'll find life.  But if such life is assumed to be so much different from what we know as humans, what kind of craft would they need to leave their star-system, their galaxy, to take a look at us?  Certainly not one which could "seat" pilots.  Their anatomy may not require them to sit, as we know it.  And again, I'd have to ask WHY would they need to "fly" here at all?  We've had our "ears" on interstellar space for decades without leaving the earth, couldn't we assume other forms of life might be doing the same for alot longer?  In other words, they would have no logical reason to come here, and more in fact to stay away.      

                  

To me, I believe that for HUMAN BEINGS the mother of intellect is curiosty.  It may not be a factor for other life forms but it's what brought Australopithicus to Homo sapiens - our intense curiosity to know.  If other life forms in other worlds possessed such an emotion, we'd have to assume then, that life started on other planets in far away galaxies much the same way it did here.  An orderly yet random chaotic flash of electricty from lightening into the seas.  If so, and it started long before 3 billion years ago, (age of earth) then they're older than us, managed to survive whatever demons they had to, and perhaps can arrive in this galaxy to observe this growing evolving experiment called life on Planet Earth. 

                          

Can an advanced race of beings learn from us?  I can't think there's anything they'd NEED to know, but when I used to examine ant colonies I was fascinated at their orderly progression, the same with bees who collected pollen from my mother's flowers then returned with their pals.  It amazed me. And certainly my intellect was on a higher scale than these insects.  So it was human curiosity that drove me to study these "lesser" life forms.  But I'm an earthing.  

                                                                      

WOULD an advanced race of non-human outer space beings be curious about us?  Let's suppose they are, and certainly after the first test of a nuclear weapon they might be!  With their vast, far more intricate knowledge, wouldn't they have invented a method of observing that didn't involve these "saucer" crafts or mutilation of cattle, or people being "beamed aboard" a great ship, or any of the other suspiciously similar reports we get from around the world?  I don't doubt people believe what they say, but science and logic are more convincing to me.  I WANT to believe, but as in any argument for and against something, you must have more proof to bolster your case, and in this one we have none.  Not one true iota of solid evidence that a space craft from another galaxy visited our planet.  Area 51 and Roswell included.    

                     

Like you (hopefully) I know life took hold on other planets in other star-systems in other galaxies at other times, far before ours, and some that started yesterday.  Star nurseries are putting the chemical properties in place that will one day create whole planetary systems around one, two, even three sun-stars.  This Universe is so large, still expanding.

                         

I believe that when far-more intelligent life decides to visit this planet, it won't be in hiding or secret, for there'd be no logical need.  If they've flown through our air space before, as reported by so many pilots, they know we have rocket capabilities but we're incredibly slow.  Ponderously slow.  They have nothing to fear from us, so a visit to Earth from planet Xenon may involve the introduction and interacting of two species of life, both eager to know the other, both wanting to learn, an event like no other before it. 

                         

The possibility exists, but only if we can last, as a species.  

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The images of various Nebulae are courtesy of JPL, HUBBLE, & NASA.  These are huge areas of space where new stars are forming.  Did you find the small picture of Horsehead Nebula?        

        

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