Nebulous

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Ironically, perhaps, on the same day NASA announced the exceptionally exciting discovery of seven Earth-size plants around a nearby star, one of my Kai ‘Opua Outrigger Canoe Club brothers ask me to apply my impressionist vision to one of the Hubble Telescope images he found on the Hubble website. As luck would have it, I learned that the Hubble images are in the public domain. However, any derivative images such my abstract rendering, if the nebula wasn’t already abstract enough, provide appropriate acknowledgement to NASA and STScl (Space Telescope Science Institute). How wonderful! So be it!

The image I selected was a region of the Carina Nebula. By definition, a nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in space. Some nebulae (more than one nebula) are regions where new stars are being formed, while others are the remains of dead or dying stars. The Carina Nebula contains at least a dozen brilliant start that are 50 to 100 times the mass of our sun.

As I think about this, I also think of Tom Robbins who wrote in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues “Perhaps everything was connected to everything, in a discernible if nebulous way, and if one might only trace the fibers and filaments of those connections, one might… One might what? Observe the Grand Design? Untangle all the puppet strings and discover whose hands (or claws) are pulling them. End the ancient search for order and meaning of the universe?”
All you have to do is cut an ordine cialis on line https://www.unica-web.com/archive/1997/verdienstmedaille.html onion and sniff it.

What is the meaning of the universe?

Three cheers for NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)! Keep up the phenomenal, exceptional, exciting work!