stardust to stardust
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Stardust to StardustThe Life Cycle of a Solar System
A Short Picture Story by Wynn WolfeCredit: NASA, NASA Artists
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Red Giant stars expel stardust…
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which create all variety of Planetary Nebulae…
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that dissipate into gargantuan fields of stardust and gas…
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which eventually re-coagulate from small Bok Globules…
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to star-forming pillars and clouds trillions of miles in length…
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that beget Proplyds from within…
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and spin to Protoplanetary Disks without…
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that create solar systems like ours…
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and overwhelming numbers of exo-planets orbiting other stars, other solar systems, up to 150 million light years away, discovered by NASA’s earth-orbiting Kepler Space Observatory
launched in 2008…
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some located in the so-called habitable zone — perhaps with water…
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like our home planet Earth…
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from which emerge life and consciousness…
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whose educated imaginations take flight…
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to learn from Nature…
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to ultimately give back to Nature.
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Last words from a letter of condolence by Albert Einstein to the Besso family on the
passing of his lifelong friend Michele Besso, March, 1955…
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“…People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a
stubbornly persistent illusion.”