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Butterfly of Annihilation - Eta Carinae
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/658af080-f142-4535-afe2-2e339709d4f5/C449AB94-207E-45A1-9C3A-20773D56A4B1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/etacar2_hst_big.jpg" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/etacar2_hst_big.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/etacar2_hst_big.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/D03B4DDA-5508-4721-8531-244AD5AE33F7" alt="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/etacar2_hst_big.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195197" href="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195197" style="font-size: 11px;">www.coolscifi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195197"> How did the star Eta Carinae create this unusual nebula? No one knows for sure. About 165 years ago, the southern star <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae">Eta Carinae</A> mysteriously became the second <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000611.html">brightest star</A> in the night sky. In 20 years, after ejecting more mass than our Sun, Eta Car unexpected faded. This outburst appears to have created the <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_Nebula">Homunculus Nebula</A>, pictured above in a composite image from the <A target="_blank" href="http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/">Hubble Space Telescope</A> taken last decade. Visible in the <A target="_blank" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:EtaCarinae.jpg">above image</A> center is purple-tinted light reflected from the violent star Eta Carinae itself. Surrounding this star are expanding lobes of gas laced with filaments of dark <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_dust">dust</A>. Jets bisect the lobes emanating from the central star. Surrounding these lobes are <A target="_blank" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998AJ....116.2443M">red-tinted debris</A> captured only by its glow in a narrow band of red light. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C449AB94-207E-45A1-9C3A-20773D56A4B1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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