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The Fried Egg Nebula....
Photo:ESO/E. Lagadec
This picture of the nebula around a rare yellow hypergiant star called IRAS 17163-3907 is the best ever taken of a star in this class and shows for the first time a huge dusty double shell surrounding the central hypergiant. The star and its shells resemble an egg white around a yolky centre, leading astronomers to nickname the object the Fried Egg Nebula. The image was released Sept. 28, 2011.
not to be confused with the "Running Chicken" nebula
which looks more like an angry bird than a running chicken.and let's not forget the Pacman nebula. or the Muscleman cluster....
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InOurTime podcast this week is on the Etruscans
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You probably have heard about the Bataan death march and the POW camps, but did you know a lot of the US POW's also were shipped out on hell ships to work in Japanese war industries? And some of these ships were sunk by US submarines who were unaware that US prisoners were on board....
HNN tells this usually forgotten part of the story...
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SisterMartha Mary
takes on praying to saints again.I link it for one of her illustrations:
Summary: do those in heaven go around with their fingers in their ears humming "I can't hear you" or do they care about us and pray for us? And if they care about us and pray for us, why can't we ask them to ask God for something?
The confusion is that the word "pray" means "ask" but the Bible thumpers think it means "worship"...
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The scandal of the "floating" inspectors...
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Factoid of the day: there are an average of 1000 coal seam fires today, and the one at Mount Wingen in NewSouthWales has been burning for 6000 years....
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and yes, Science fans, the Ignoble Prizes have been announced.
more HERE.This year's winners of the dubious distinction handed out Thursday at Harvard University for head-scratching scientific discoveries included a team of Japanese scientists who invented a fire alarm that smells like wasabi; a European mayor who solved his city's parking problems with a piece of heavy military equipment; a Norwegian researcher who explored the science behind sighing; and the numerous people throughout history whose mathematical calculations to predict the end of the world have fallen flat.
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And the "making lemons into lemonade" item of the day:
the Marikina Shoe Museum contains Imelda's shoe collection and much more
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