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12/8/13
Stars
This week I dropped off my stars to Maryann. She was stringing together stars for the installation at the big design market at the exhibition buildings. I worked there last night, and the stars are absolutely stunning, such an inspiring project. My hands were too full to take a picture, but here are some pictures from our workshop a couple of weekends ago at Craft.
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2/14/11
Runaway
Like a ship plowing through cosmic seas, runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi produces the arcing interstellar bow wave or bow shock seen in this stunning infrared portrait from the WISE spacecraft. In the false-color view, bluish Zeta Oph, a star about 20 times more massive than the Sun, lies near the center of the frame, moving toward the top at 24 kilometers per second. Its strong stellar wind precedes it, compressing and heating the dusty interstellar material and shaping the curved shock front. Around it are clouds of relatively undisturbed material. What set this star in motion? Zeta Oph was likely once a member of a binary star system, its companion star was more massive and hence shorter lived. When the companion exploded as a supernova catastrophically losing mass, Zeta Oph was flung out of the system. About 460 light-years away, Zeta Oph is 65,000 times more luminous than the Sun and would be one of the brighter stars in the sky if it weren't surrounded by obscuring dust.
From Apod. I could stare at this for hours. I am reading 'The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science' by Richard Holmes.
I thought I'd look up some of the discoveries discussed in the book; here is a galaxy spotted by the first lady of Astronomy, Caroline Herschel. Anyway, I LOVE their talk of interstellar material, tendrils and galactic discs. A little bit of romance on valentines day.
Shiny NGC 253 Galaxy, is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, and also one of the dustiest. Some call it the Silver Dollar Galaxy for its appearance in small telescopes, or just the Sculptor Galaxy for its location within the boundaries of the southern constellation Sculptor. First swept up in 1783 by mathematician and astronomer Caroline Herschel, the dusty island universe lies a mere 10 million light-years away. About 70 thousand light-years across, NGC 253 is the largest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies, the nearest to our own Local Group of Galaxies. In addition to its spiral dust lanes, striking tendrils of dust seem to be rising from a galactic disk laced with young star clusters and star forming regions in this processed color image. The high dust content accompanies frantic star formation, giving NGC 253 the designation of a starburst galaxy.
2/14/10
Happy New Year Tiger
A Snake in the year of the Tiger. This made me laugh as I know quite a few Tiger people with loose change in their brains. I heart Chinese astrology, almost as much as I heart numerology.
The Tiger wishes you only the best. His influence however is another pair of socks altogether. Tigers have a reputation for prowling low in the jungles of the world late at night stalking their prey. This animal portrait does not quite fit the profile of the restless Tiger person. Tiger people are active in the extreme. They leap and bound and careen about searching for new and different experiences. They adore change and prefer that it happen in a hurry. You Snakes prefer to languish in silken repose on chaises longues reading novels with dense, sinuous plots, expansive detailed geographies and complex dramatis personnae. Let’s just say your styles are different. And your goals are not the same either. You want to reflect and philosophize. Tigers act first and think second. Because of their immense charm, Tigers are frequently chosen to lead. But they rarely lead far without the sage advice of someone like you. How could they? They have change for brains – loose change at that. So this Tiger year will be a challenge for Snakes. You will be called upon to counsel friends and foes alike. You will be in charge of wisdom. Small accidents and tiny setbacks will annoy you. But you are not in danger. In the hands of a Tiger, a Snake can feel a certain thrill. But don’t look for security this year cuz there isn’t any to spare.
Apologies for a post irrelevant to almost everybody. Whoops. Speaking of crooked obsessions, remind me to post about my love for Psychic Rainbow sometime.
The Tiger wishes you only the best. His influence however is another pair of socks altogether. Tigers have a reputation for prowling low in the jungles of the world late at night stalking their prey. This animal portrait does not quite fit the profile of the restless Tiger person. Tiger people are active in the extreme. They leap and bound and careen about searching for new and different experiences. They adore change and prefer that it happen in a hurry. You Snakes prefer to languish in silken repose on chaises longues reading novels with dense, sinuous plots, expansive detailed geographies and complex dramatis personnae. Let’s just say your styles are different. And your goals are not the same either. You want to reflect and philosophize. Tigers act first and think second. Because of their immense charm, Tigers are frequently chosen to lead. But they rarely lead far without the sage advice of someone like you. How could they? They have change for brains – loose change at that. So this Tiger year will be a challenge for Snakes. You will be called upon to counsel friends and foes alike. You will be in charge of wisdom. Small accidents and tiny setbacks will annoy you. But you are not in danger. In the hands of a Tiger, a Snake can feel a certain thrill. But don’t look for security this year cuz there isn’t any to spare.
Apologies for a post irrelevant to almost everybody. Whoops. Speaking of crooked obsessions, remind me to post about my love for Psychic Rainbow sometime.
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