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| | 'Panthea' - Oscar Wilde | | 'The Universe itself shall be our Immortality' - The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The central star of the nebula is 40 times more massive than the Sun and is responsible for a stellar wind moving at 4 million miles per hour, propelling particles off the surface of the star. The 'bubble' surface being the outermost edge of the particle wave. | | CREDIT: NASA - Hubble Space Telescope 1999 | |
| 'To the Man-Of-War-Bird' - Walt Whitman | | To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane, thou ship of air that never furlst thy sails ... The TRMM satellite took this infrared image of Hurricane Fran over the Bahamas in 1996. Read how TRMM's rain data can help better forecast hurricanes. | | CREDIT: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | |
| | | | | Ultraviolence: The SOHO satellite captured this image of extreme ultraviolet activity generated by the sun. The solar observatory is functioning again after a mysterious failure. | | CREDIT: SOHO, 4/98 | |
| | | The eagle ... er, pelican has landed: The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge next to the Kennedy Space Center is home to more than 310 bird species, 25 mammals, 117 fishes and 65 amphibians and reptiles. Read more about the record-size fish found there. | | CREDIT: NASA, 2/99 | |
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