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I AM AVAILABLE FOR EITHER YOUR PRIVATE PARTIES,
OR FOR YOUR BUSINESS GET-TOGETHERS.
I am available for whatever occasion, party, or for any celebration
that you might want to have. Get a bunch of friends together. We
can do "Group Readings" where everybody can sit in just to listen,
or participate or add comment to, or we can do more private
one-on-one "Readings".
If you have friends who have the same birthday, or just the same
Sun Sign, or having a party for any reason whatsoever, I can add a
unique and fun perspective to your party or event. Have fun with
it. It could even be for a "New Year's Party"!
Since each party is unique, call or e-mail me
for suggestions or ideas for your different themes.
Business parties can also be for whatever occasion as well:
Anniversaries, Bonus Parties, Yearly Parties, Retirements, etc.
HAVE FUN & ADD A UNIQUE ASPECT TO YOUR PARTIES!
Thanks & Best Regards, Darrell Steen
darrellsteen@darrellsteenastrology.com
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OR FOR YOUR BUSINESS GET-TOGETHERS.
I am available for whatever occasion, party, or for any celebration
that you might want to have. Get a bunch of friends together. We
can do "Group Readings" where everybody can sit in just to listen,
or participate or add comment to, or we can do more private
one-on-one "Readings".
If you have friends who have the same birthday, or just the same
Sun Sign, or having a party for any reason whatsoever, I can add a
unique and fun perspective to your party or event. Have fun with
it. It could even be for a "New Year's Party"!
Since each party is unique, call or e-mail me
for suggestions or ideas for your different themes.
Business parties can also be for whatever occasion as well:
Anniversaries, Bonus Parties, Yearly Parties, Retirements, etc.
HAVE FUN & ADD A UNIQUE ASPECT TO YOUR PARTIES!
Thanks & Best Regards, Darrell Steen
darrellsteen@darrellsteenastrology.com
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This image of the Butterfly Nebula, also known as NGC 6302, was taken on July
27th, 2009, with the Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3. This celestial body looks like a
delicate butterfly, but it is far from serene. What resembles dainty butterfly wings
are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees
Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour -
fast enough to travel from the Earth to the moon in 24 minutes! A dying star that
was once five times the mass of the sun is at the center of this fury. The glowing
gas seen here is the star's outer layers, that over the past 2200 years, has ejected
its envelope of gases and is now unleashing a stream of ultraviolet radiation that is
making the cast-off material glow. The "Butterfly" stretches for more than two
light-years, which is about half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star, Alpha
Centauri. NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way Galaxy, roughly 3,800 light-years
away in the constellation Scorpius. The central star itself cannot be seen, because
it is hidden within a doughnut-shaped ring of dust, which appears as a dark band
pinching the nebula in the center. The thick dust belt constricts the star's outflow,
creating the classic "bipolar" or hourglass shape. The star first evolved into a huge
red-giant star, with a diameter 1,000 times that of our Sun. It then lost its extended
outer layers. Some of this gas was cast off from its equator at a relatively slow
speed, perhaps as low as 20,000 miles an hour, creating the doughnut-shaped ring.
Other gas was ejected perpendicular to the ring at higher speeds, producing the
elongated "wings" of the butterfly-shaped structure. Later, as the central star
heated up, a much faster stellar wind, a stream of charged particles travelling at
more than 2 million miles an hour, plowed through the existing wing-shaped
structure, further modifying its shape. This image also shows numerous finger-like
projections pointing back to the star, which may mark denser blobs in the outflow
that have resisted the pressure from the stellar wind. The nebula's reddish outer
edges are largely due to light emitted by nitrogen, which marks the coolest gases
visible in the picture. The white-colored regions are areas where light is emitted by
sulfur. These are regions where fast-moving gas overtakes and collides with
slow-moving gas that left the star at an earlier time, producing shock waves in the
gas, (the bright white edges on the side facing the central star). The white blob
with the crisp edge at upper right is an example of one of those shock waves.
One light-year = traveling @ 186,000 miles per second,
x 60 seconds per minute, x 60 minutes per hour,
x 24 hours in one day, x 365 days per year!
Multiplied By 3,800 To Reach The Butterfly Nebula!
To walk 1 light-year, at a moderate pace of 20 minutes a mile, it would take you 225
million years to complete your journey, (not including stops for meals or the
restroom). If you started just before dinosaurs appeared on Earth, you'd probably
be finishing your hike just about now. Even if you hitched a ride on N.A.S.A.'s Mach
9.68x- 43A Hypersonic Scram Jet, the fastest aircraft in the world, it would take
about 95,000 years to cover the distance.
You'll need a pretty big travel bag too; for walking such a distance requires
substantial supplies. You'd need 2 trillion Power Bars to fuel your trip. You'd also
produce a heap of worn-out shoes. The typical pair of sneakers will last you 500
miles, so you'd burn through some 11.8 billion pairs of shoes; and all that effort
wouldn't get you very far, astronomically speaking, because the closest star to our
Sun, is Proxima Centauri which is 4.22 light-years away!
27th, 2009, with the Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3. This celestial body looks like a
delicate butterfly, but it is far from serene. What resembles dainty butterfly wings
are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees
Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour -
fast enough to travel from the Earth to the moon in 24 minutes! A dying star that
was once five times the mass of the sun is at the center of this fury. The glowing
gas seen here is the star's outer layers, that over the past 2200 years, has ejected
its envelope of gases and is now unleashing a stream of ultraviolet radiation that is
making the cast-off material glow. The "Butterfly" stretches for more than two
light-years, which is about half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star, Alpha
Centauri. NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way Galaxy, roughly 3,800 light-years
away in the constellation Scorpius. The central star itself cannot be seen, because
it is hidden within a doughnut-shaped ring of dust, which appears as a dark band
pinching the nebula in the center. The thick dust belt constricts the star's outflow,
creating the classic "bipolar" or hourglass shape. The star first evolved into a huge
red-giant star, with a diameter 1,000 times that of our Sun. It then lost its extended
outer layers. Some of this gas was cast off from its equator at a relatively slow
speed, perhaps as low as 20,000 miles an hour, creating the doughnut-shaped ring.
Other gas was ejected perpendicular to the ring at higher speeds, producing the
elongated "wings" of the butterfly-shaped structure. Later, as the central star
heated up, a much faster stellar wind, a stream of charged particles travelling at
more than 2 million miles an hour, plowed through the existing wing-shaped
structure, further modifying its shape. This image also shows numerous finger-like
projections pointing back to the star, which may mark denser blobs in the outflow
that have resisted the pressure from the stellar wind. The nebula's reddish outer
edges are largely due to light emitted by nitrogen, which marks the coolest gases
visible in the picture. The white-colored regions are areas where light is emitted by
sulfur. These are regions where fast-moving gas overtakes and collides with
slow-moving gas that left the star at an earlier time, producing shock waves in the
gas, (the bright white edges on the side facing the central star). The white blob
with the crisp edge at upper right is an example of one of those shock waves.
One light-year = traveling @ 186,000 miles per second,
x 60 seconds per minute, x 60 minutes per hour,
x 24 hours in one day, x 365 days per year!
Multiplied By 3,800 To Reach The Butterfly Nebula!
To walk 1 light-year, at a moderate pace of 20 minutes a mile, it would take you 225
million years to complete your journey, (not including stops for meals or the
restroom). If you started just before dinosaurs appeared on Earth, you'd probably
be finishing your hike just about now. Even if you hitched a ride on N.A.S.A.'s Mach
9.68x- 43A Hypersonic Scram Jet, the fastest aircraft in the world, it would take
about 95,000 years to cover the distance.
You'll need a pretty big travel bag too; for walking such a distance requires
substantial supplies. You'd need 2 trillion Power Bars to fuel your trip. You'd also
produce a heap of worn-out shoes. The typical pair of sneakers will last you 500
miles, so you'd burn through some 11.8 billion pairs of shoes; and all that effort
wouldn't get you very far, astronomically speaking, because the closest star to our
Sun, is Proxima Centauri which is 4.22 light-years away!