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Welcome to BERK's Universe...Think BIG!
In 1787, astronomer William Herschel discovered the Eskimo Nebula, which from the ground resembles a person's head surrounded by a parka hood. In 2000, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the nebula that displays gas clouds so complex they are not fully understood. The Eskimo Nebula is clearly a planetary nebula, and the gas seen above composed the outer layers of a sun-like star only 10,000 years ago. The inner filaments visible above are being ejected by strong wind of particles from the central star. The outer disk contains unusual light-year long orange filaments.
Curious Quotes
"There are MORE stars in the observable universe than there are grains of sand on every beach on planet Earth ! "
-Michio Kaku - Theoretical Physicist City University of New York
"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once ". - John Wheeler Theoretical Physicist, Princeton
“I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space”
-Shakespeare