First came the “Running Chicken” nebula, and now comes a cosmic “Fried Egg.” A European telescope has captured the best image yet of one of the rarest classes of stars in our universe, and astronomers playfully point out that the cosmic scene resembles an egg white around a yolky center. via Fried egg nebula: European telescope captures image of monster star [VIDEO] – CSMonitor.com.
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Lots to blog in small, short bursts… we’re back from vacation and it’s been several days already, and the blog-kage is starting to give. David is out of town on business, and was a little bummed that he had to leave on Monday after we only arrived home on Sunday evening. He hasn’t even seen Rileycat yet; we boarded the cat at the vet for the trip and I couldn’t pick him up until after work on Monday, several hours after David left again from O’Hare. If you don’t have a headset, microphone or speakers, you can still use Skype…
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I’d really like to know if the product blamed for causing this tragedy is a regular commercially available spray; my officemates use Lysol like room freshener, but it may have been an industrial strength spray.
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In a local protest against “uptight” local laws and Utah mores, up to 3,000 people ran, walked, or jogged in their underwear in downtown Salt Lake City.