Hairy eyeballs from deep space: An infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a photo fave of amateur astronomers. The nebula, about 700 light years away in the constellation Aquarius, surrounds a tiny white dwarf (dot in center). The red indicates the final layers of gas blown out when the star died.I don't have all that much to say today, and here is this lovely picture, so I thought I would share it with you.
Photo NASA; text SFGate.com
1 comment:
Ohhh, that is a wonderful picture. James loved learning about Nebulas last year. I will have to show this to him. It looks like a giant eye, lashes and all.
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