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	The Eye of God

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8-31-2007 10:31 AM

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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://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/6d95e8b1-2af2-4cf7-a6fd-f9edc34a01db/6A84F761-BB87-4D65-9B62-3369F34DF949/" 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.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/31/scinasa131.xml" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/31/scinasa131.xml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/31/scinasa131.xml"><P class="story2">This incredible image of a dying star shows how gases have spread out over distances of six light years.</P><TABLE width="308" hspace="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD width="8" rowspan="2"> </TD><TD width="300"><CENTER><IMG width="300" height="279" border="0" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/08/31/scinasa131.jpg" alt="The Helix nebula, also known as the Eye of God" /></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD class="caption"><CENTER><DIV>The Helix nebula, also known as the Eye of God</DIV><BR /></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class="story2"><DIV>The dead centre of the exploded star, known as the Helix nebula, is pictured surrounded by rings of gases from the former star and nearby planets that appear to have survived its death throes. </DIV><BR />Also known as the Eye of God, astronomers say it gives an idea of what could happen to our solar system when our own sun finally dies.</P><P class="story2">The former star is situated 650 light years away from Earth in the Aquarius constellation.</P></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/6A84F761-BB87-4D65-9B62-3369F34DF949/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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