<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/48250bea-bc6b-4478-aa75-33e3ec9383a7/BB7CB235-46DC-4694-B48A-F7A1D84CB955/" 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://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090514.html" href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090514.html" style="font-size: 11px;">apod.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090514.html"><CENTER><P>2009 May 14 <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0905/ic443_bachmayer1200.jpg"> <IMG alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0905/ic443_bachmayer800.jpg" /></A> </P></CENTER> <CENTER> <B> Elusive Jellyfish Nebula </B> </CENTER></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://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090514.html"><P><B>Explanation: </B> Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in <A href="http://www.pbase.com/gbachmayer/image/111790710/medium">this alluring wide-field</A> telescopic view. Flanked by two yellow-tinted stars, <A href="http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/tejat.html">Mu</A> and <A href="http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/propus.html">Eta</A> Geminorum, at the foot of a <A href="http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/gem/index.html">celestial twin</A>, the Jellyfish Nebula is the brighter arcing ridge of emission with dangling tentacles right of center. In fact, the cosmic jellyfish is seen to be part of bubble-shaped <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060602.html">supernova remnant IC 443</A>, the expanding debris cloud from a <A href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/supernovas.html">massive star that exploded</A>. Light from the explosion first reached planet Earth over 30,000 years ago. Like its cousin in astrophysical waters the <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080217.html">Crab Nebula</A> supernova remnant, IC 443 is <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001215.html">known to harbor</A> a neutron star, the remnant of the collapsed stellar core. Emission nebula Sharpless 249 fills the field at the upper left. The Jellyfish Nebula is about 5,000 light-years away. At that distance, this image would be almost 200 light-years across. </P><P> </P><CENTER> </CENTER></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/BB7CB235-46DC-4694-B48A-F7A1D84CB955/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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