Butterfly Nebula
NgC 6302 image from the Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3
The Butterfly Nebula or the Bug Nebula, is about 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The features that look like dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit, blasted away from a dying star bigger than the sun.
The Carina Nebula, about 7,500 light-years away.
The pictures from the recently repaired and serviced Hubble space telescope are amazing.
Go to the Hubble site HERE, and be awestruck by this wonderful universe in which we live. I could spend days just roaming through the Hubble website.
I like this stuff.
One of my neighbors asked me if I could put together a stool with a drawer that needed to be assembled. She was getting ready to send it back because she couldn't figure out how to put it together. I said sure, and reminded her that I had assembled some sort of bathroom shelves for her. a year or so ago. Not surprisingly, she didn't remember. I live in an apartment complex for seniors. There is a lot of forgetfulness going on around here.
More fun than a jigsaw puzzle.
I am looking for the story I wrote about assembling the bathroom shelf thing and I am astonished by the amount of material I have written and compiled for the e-book I am writing. I started out thinking in terms of the more traditional printed book, but as I delved more into the world of hyperlinks, embeded video, music, pictures and dancing molecules, I realized that there is an even better way to write than just words on a page. The weblog is the perfect means for me to express myself with a variety of communication methods.
I was wondering how I could get what I am doing right here, into a book? Have an interactive DVD or something? No problem, now that e-books are becoming popular, there will be a way to put my book together in a form that you can interactively read, click on links, listen to audio, watch video, and navigate just as you are doing with this blog post. Wow!
A lovely plant stand? Knick knack table?
Like I mentioned, I have more than enough stories, adventures, history, music, photos, philosophy, and observations in the archives, to begin creating my first web-book. I shall begin soon. Maybe next week, or next month. Definitely, after I finish the chapter on procrastination.
Todays Relatively Appropriate Song;
Handy Man - Jimmy Jones
Divine Expression
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