<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/d6b3ea18-6325-4521-a3df-20c3465b8990/B14DC440-739A-4B2A-AF38-701B0BD3CE64/" 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.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/cosmic-monster-n44-by-don-goldman/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/cosmic-monster-n44-by-don-goldman/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/cosmic-monster-n44-by-don-goldman/">Deep in the large Magellanic Cloud a 325 light-year sized cosmic monster is born. Its open maw spans some 250 light years across, and from it spews massive particle winds. Held in its glowing gas jaws could be the expanding shells of old supernovae and it has even coughed forth hot X-ray emitting gas. What exactly is this wide-mouthed creature? Step inside…</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://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/cosmic-monster-n44-by-don-goldman/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/1BDAAF07-20CD-4379-880C-2F0B62CB21C0" alt="N44 - Don Goldman" /></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://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/cosmic-monster-n44-by-don-goldman/">a <A target="blank" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2003/11/04/eso-provides-views-of-n44-nebula/">complex nebula</A> known as the <A target="blank" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2006/01/05/superbubble-complex-n44/">N44 superbubble</A> </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://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/cosmic-monster-n44-by-don-goldman/">his "super bubble" may have formed when one or more massive stars in the central cluster exploded as supernovae, blowing a hole through the nearby <A target="blank" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2002/05/13/hubble-views-wispy-nebula/">turbulent gas complex</A>. But a lot of uncertainties of its evolution still remain</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://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/cosmic-monster-n44-by-don-goldman/">still lots of exciting science to be done here</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://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/cosmic-monster-n44-by-don-goldman/">stellar winds hurling forth a storm of particles moving at about 7 million kilometers per hour and multiple <A target="blank" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2006/05/04/companion-star-changed-supernovas-appearance/">supernova</A> explosions</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://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/cosmic-monster-n44-by-don-goldman/">several compact star-forming regions at the rim and a central star ejecting more than a 100 million times more mass per second than our Sun</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://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/cosmic-monster-n44-by-don-goldman/">both beautiful and terrifying to behold</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/B14DC440-739A-4B2A-AF38-701B0BD3CE64/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.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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