Mister Johnson The Very Minor God
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Mister Johnson - The Very Minor god
Jeffrey Hite
Copyright 2012 by Jeffrey Hite
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Cover
Image
Cat's Eye Nebula
Three
thousand light-years away, the Cat's Eye Nebula, a dying star throws
off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope
reveals the nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae
known. In fact, the features seen in the Cat's Eye are so complex
that astronomers suspect the bright central object may actually be a
binary star system. The term planetary nebula is misleading; although
these objects may appear round and planet-like in small telescopes,
high resolution images reveal them to be stars surrounded by cocoons
of gas blown off in the late stages of stellar evolution.
Image
credit: NASA, J. P. Harrington (U. Maryland) and K. J. Borkowski
(NCSU)