<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://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/c783ac57-b5fd-4290-8421-ff62e8b33d79/67CF3C80-F324-4B8E-AE71-2E9BD6E6D6B1/" 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/ap090915.html" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090915.html" 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/ap090915.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/551BDAFE-B0A0-4B64-8506-98E82AFB8620" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></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/ap090915.html">s a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. <A href="http://www.iac.es/telescopes/IAM/Jul09_ing.html">This beautiful portrait</A> of the nebula is from the Isaac Newton Telescope at <A href="http://www.iac.es/eno.php?op1=2&lang=en">Roque de los Muchachos</A> Observatory in the Canary Islands.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></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/ap090915.html"> The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong <A href="http://www.peripatus.gen.nz/Astronomy/SteWin.html">stellar wind</A>, ejecting the equivalent of the Sun's mass every 10,000 years. The nebula's complex structures are likely the result of this strong wind interacting with material ejected in an earlier phase. Burning fuel at a prodigious rate and <A href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/ngc6888/">near the end</A> of its stellar life this star should ultimately go out with a bang in a spectacular <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060430.html">supernova</A> explosion. Found in the <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080424.html">nebula rich</A> constellation Cygnus, <A href="http://seds.org/~spider/ngc/ngc.cgi?NGC6888">NGC 6888</A> is about 5,000 light-years away.</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;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/67CF3C80-F324-4B8E-AE71-2E9BD6E6D6B1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.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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