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To: levy who wrote (577)	3/5/2000 2:08:00 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 753

After all the fracas on earth this week, thought it would be nice to look out the window and see this....This looks like an omen to me....a silver lining, so to speak....Here's to a great day, to all of us! KLP msnbc.com Hubble captures reflected glory Space Shorts: Nebula shows off bright star and dark clouds ASSOCIATED PRESS March 2 ? Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope last December, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. LIKE FOG around a street lamp, a reflection nebula shines only because the light from an embedded source illuminates its dust. The nebula does not emit any visible light of its own. NGC 1999 lies close to the famous Orion Nebula, about 1,500 light-years from Earth, in a region of our Milky Way galaxy where new stars are being formed actively. The NGC 1999 nebula is illuminated by a bright, recently formed star, visible in the Hubble photo just to the left of center. This star is cataloged as V380 Orionis, and its white color is due to its high surface temperature of about 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or 10,000 degrees Celsius (nearly twice that of our own sun). Its mass is estimated to be 3.5 times that of the sun. The star is so young that it is still surrounded by a cloud of material left over from its formation, here seen as the NGC 1999 reflection nebula. The image, taken by Hubble?s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, shows a remarkable jet-black cloud near its center, resembling a letter T tilted on its side, located just to the right and lower right of the bright star. This dark cloud is an example of a ?Bok globule,? named after the late University of Arizona astronomer Bart Bok. The globule is a cold cloud of gas, molecules and cosmic dust that is so dense it blocks all of the light behind it. In the Hubble image, the globule is seen silhouetted against the reflection nebula illuminated by V380 Orionis. Astronomers believe that new stars may be forming inside Bok globules, through the contraction of the dust and molecular gas under their own gravity. NGC 1999 was discovered some two centuries ago by Sir William Herschel and his sister Caroline, and was cataloged later in the 19th century as object 1999 in the New General Catalogue. These data were collected in January 2000 by the Hubble Heritage Team with the collaboration of star-formation experts C. Robert O?Dell of Rice University, Thomas P. Ray of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Study and David Corcoran of the University of Limerick.