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	Cosmic Hand of Destruction

ColoradoRight

4-13-2009 11:32 AM

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universe, cosmos, neutron, star, gas, hand, terminator

ColoradoRight says:

It does look like a giant blue hand, and it really reminds me of the endoskeleton from a Terminator.

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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/929e877d-a59d-45e2-928e-a10dfadde994/7377E3D9-3735-4118-9356-AA032AB6F5FC/" 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://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/09/the-cosmic-hand-of-destruction/" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/09/the-cosmic-hand-of-destruction/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/09/the-cosmic-hand-of-destruction/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.discovermagazine.com/img/9A188BE7-3E42-4ACB-BE15-76AB058B9FAA" alt="Chandra image of a pulsar nebula" /></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://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/09/the-cosmic-hand-of-destruction/"><P>First off, what is it? Obviously, it’s a giant blue hand reaching for a giant piece of cosmic smoked salmon! Dr. Manhattan must be hungry.</P></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://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/09/the-cosmic-hand-of-destruction/"><P>OK, duh, <A target="_blank" href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/">it’s a nebula</A>, a vast structure of gas several light years across and located about 17,000 light years away from Earth. Since this is a Chandra X-ray observatory image the gas must be terribly hot; only the most energetic events can give off X-rays. So what’s heating the gas?</P></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://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/09/the-cosmic-hand-of-destruction/"><P>That also explains the fingers, too: each is a tower of gas heated by the beam as it made its giant sweeping circle in the sky. So not only do they <EM>look</EM> like fingers, they’re also actually pointing to the knots of gas in RCW 89, the neutron star’s way of saying "You’re next."</P></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://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/09/the-cosmic-hand-of-destruction/"><P>The energies involved here are nothing short of mind-numbing. The clumps of gas in RCW 89 are so hot that they are  storing the same amount of energy as the Sun gives off in <EM>3 million years</EM>. If that really were a giant hand reaching for RCW 89, it better be prepared for a nasty burn.</P></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://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/09/the-cosmic-hand-of-destruction/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.discovermagazine.com/img/D838DD61-DFC0-4C31-9BC4-87BF3B044D66" alt="Who Mourns For Adonis? hand and Enterprise" /></div></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/7377E3D9-3735-4118-9356-AA032AB6F5FC/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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