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Quote from: hubag bohol on December 09, 2012, 10:24:32 AM

This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" or a Dr. Seuss book, depending on your imagination. Even more dramatic than fiction, this Hubble image captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

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Quote from: islander on December 10, 2012, 09:09:33 PM
Even more dramatic than fiction, this Hubble image captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars.

3 light years!  make that 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers (1 light year) x 3, or twenty-eight trillion, five hundred billion kilometers!  (is that correct, engineer pikoy and doc lorenz?)  i shudder at the height and my own insignificance.

Quote from: islander on December 10, 2012, 10:32:47 PM
3 light years!  make that 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers (1 light year) x 3, or twenty-eight trillion, five hundred billion kilometers!  (is that correct, engineer pikoy and doc lorenz?)  i shudder at the height and my own insignificance.

Maintain your composure, my pet. Consider the splendor of a kiity's yawn...