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To: BigWaveBetty
This is so cool. A photo of Helix Nebula taken by the Hubble Telescope.

NASA calls it simply "The Eye of God"...

This photograph of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula is one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever made. The composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope combined with the wide view of the Mosaic Camera on the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz. The image shows a fine web of filamentary "bicycle-spoke" features embedded in the colorful red and blue ring of gas. At 650 light-years away, the Helix is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth. A planetary nebula is the glowing gas around a dying, Sun-like star.

35 posted on 03/01/2005 5:39:42 PM PST by Timeout (Dean & the Bike Path Left: aging anti-warriors who use "summer" as a verb~~Jonah)
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To: Timeout
WOW!!!! KEWL!!!!!!! WOWWIE WOW WOW!!!!!!!
39 posted on 03/01/2005 5:54:57 PM PST by BigWaveBetty (~~Secretary of Keepin' It Real)
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