November 27, 2007

DNA Nebula

The image I couldn't post on How Are You Fixed for Spit? is this one of the newly-discovered DNA Nebula.

 DNA Nebula .jpg

Only last year did we first get a glimpse of this nebula which is 80 light years long and lies near the enormous black hole at the center of our Milky Way.

Mark Morris, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California said

Nobody has ever seen anything like that before in the cosmic realm.

Most nebulae are either spiral galaxies full of stars or formless, amorphous conglomerations of dust and gas—space weather. What we see indicates a high degree of order.

Posted by Jill Fallon at November 27, 2007 3:05 PM | Permalink
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