Spitzer Image: Dying Star Goes Out With a Ring

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov

Whitney Clavin (818) 354-4673

Image Advisory: 2004-195 August 9, 2004

Dying Star Goes Out With a Ring

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the shimmering
embers of a dying star, and in their midst a mysterious
doughnut-shaped ring.

"Spitzer's infrared vision has revealed what could not be seen before
- a massive ring of material that was expelled from the dying star,"
said Dr. Joseph Hora, a Spitzer scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass. "The composition of the ring
and how it formed are mysteries we hope to address with further
Spitzer studies."

The new picture is available online at
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06755 .

The dying star is part of a "planetary nebula" called NGC 246. When a
star like our own Sun begins to run out of fuel, its core shrinks and
heats up, boiling off the star's outer layers. Leftover material
shoots outward, expanding in shells around the star. This ejected
material is then bombarded with ultraviolet light from the central
star's fiery surface, producing huge, glowing clouds - planetary
nebulas - that look like giant jellyfish in space.

These cosmic beauties last a relatively brief time, about a few
thousand years, in the approximately 10-billion-year lifetime of a
star. The name "planetary nebula" came from early astronomers who
thought the rounded clouds looked like planets.

NGC 246 is located 1,800 light-years away in the Cetus constellation
of our galaxy. Previous observations of this object by visible-light
telescopes showed a glistening orb of gas and dust surrounding a
central, compact star.

By cutting through the envelope of dust with its infrared eyes,
Spitzer provides a more transparent view through and behind the
nebula. "What we have seen with Spitzer is totally unexpected," said
Hora. "Although previous observations showed the nebula had a patchy
appearance, Spitzer has revealed a ring component of this dying star,
possibly consisting of hydrogen molecules."

In the new false-color picture, the ring appears clumpy and red and
off-center from the central star, while fluorescent, or ionized, gases
are green. The central star is the left white spot in the middle of
the cloud.

Ultimately, these data will help astronomers better understand how
planetary nebulas take shape, and how they nourish new generations of
stars. A scientific paper on this and other planetary nebulas observed
by Spitzer will be published on Sept. 1 in The Astrophysical Journal
Supplement, along with 75 other papers reporting Spitzer early mission
results.

Launched August 25, 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope is the fourth of
NASA's Great Observatories, a program that also includes the Hubble
Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Compton Gamma
Ray Observatory. Spitzer is also part of NASA's Origins Program,
which seeks to answer the questions: Where did we come from? Are we
alone?

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer
Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
Washington, D.C. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer
Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
JPL is a division of Caltech. Spitzer's infrared array camera, which
took the new picture of NGC 246, was built by NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The camera's development was led by Dr.
Giovanni Fazio of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Additional information about the Spitzer Space Telescope is available
at http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu .


-end-

Ron wrote:

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov

Whitney Clavin (818) 354-4673

Image Advisory: 2004-195 August 9, 2004

Dying Star Goes Out With a Ring

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the shimmering
embers of a dying star, and in their midst a mysterious
doughnut-shaped ring.

"Spitzer's infrared vision has revealed what could not be seen before
- a massive ring of material that was expelled from the dying star,"
said Dr. Joseph Hora, a Spitzer scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass. "The composition of the ring
and how it formed are mysteries we hope to address with further
Spitzer studies."

The new picture is available online at
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06755 .

The dying star is part of a "planetary nebula" called NGC 246. When a
star like our own Sun begins to run out of fuel, its core shrinks and
heats up, boiling off the star's outer layers. Leftover material
shoots outward, expanding in shells around the star. This ejected
material is then bombarded with ultraviolet light from the central
star's fiery surface, producing huge, glowing clouds - planetary
nebulas - that look like giant jellyfish in space.

Something missing from the math or is it simply something missing from
comprehension of what happens to stars in their life-death-rebirth phases.

Matter begins to collect at the stars equator due to gravity forces,
before being cast off. I see the 'brilliant intellects' at NASA
haven't realized this yet.


These cosmic beauties last a relatively brief time, about a few
thousand years, in the approximately 10-billion-year lifetime of a
star. The name "planetary nebula" came from early astronomers who
thought the rounded clouds looked like planets.

NGC 246 is located 1,800 light-years away in the Cetus constellation
of our galaxy. Previous observations of this object by visible-light
telescopes showed a glistening orb of gas and dust surrounding a
central, compact star.

By cutting through the envelope of dust with its infrared eyes,
Spitzer provides a more transparent view through and behind the
nebula. "What we have seen with Spitzer is totally unexpected," said
Hora. "Although previous observations showed the nebula had a patchy
appearance, Spitzer has revealed a ring component of this dying star,
possibly consisting of hydrogen molecules."

In the new false-color picture, the ring appears clumpy and red and
off-center from the central star, while fluorescent, or ionized, gases
are green. The central star is the left white spot in the middle of
the cloud.

Ultimately, these data will help astronomers better understand how
planetary nebulas take shape, and how they nourish new generations of
stars. A scientific paper on this and other planetary nebulas observed
by Spitzer will be published on Sept. 1 in The Astrophysical Journal
Supplement, along with 75 other papers reporting Spitzer early mission
results.

Launched August 25, 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope is the fourth of
NASA's Great Observatories, a program that also includes the Hubble
Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Compton Gamma
Ray Observatory. Spitzer is also part of NASA's Origins Program,
which seeks to answer the questions: Where did we come from? Are we
alone?

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer
Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
Washington, D.C. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer
Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
JPL is a division of Caltech. Spitzer's infrared array camera, which
took the new picture of NGC 246, was built by NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The camera's development was led by Dr.
Giovanni Fazio of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Additional information about the Spitzer Space Telescope is available
at http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu .


-end-

In article ble.rogers.com,
Mad Scientist writes:
Matter begins to collect at the stars equator due to gravity forces,
before being cast off. I see the 'brilliant intellects' at NASA
haven't realized this yet.

What do you mean by this, and why do you think it happens? Is it
like all the oceans on Earth collecting at the equator?

--
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Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
(Please email your reply if you want to be sure I see it; include a
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"Steve Willner" wrote in message
...
In article
ble.rogers.com,
Mad Scientist writes:
Matter begins to collect at the stars equator due to gravity forces,
before being cast off. I see the 'brilliant intellects' at NASA
haven't realized this yet.

What do you mean by this, and why do you think it happens? Is it
like all the oceans on Earth collecting at the equator?

He doesn't "mean" anything... he's a troll. He makes wild assertions
with no evidence, and when called on it quickly devolves into ad hominem
attacks and personal insults.

Steve Willner wrote:

In article ble.rogers.com,
Mad Scientist writes:

Matter begins to collect at the stars equator due to gravity forces,
before being cast off. I see the 'brilliant intellects' at NASA
haven't realized this yet.


What do you mean by this, and why do you think it happens? Is it
like all the oceans on Earth collecting at the equator?


Gravity in any galactic object is strongest at the 'equator' which could
be thought of as a disk. In our solar system, the planets rotate around
the 'solar disk'. The galactic arms of any galaxy are generally spread
out according to a 'galactic disk-like' form, depending on what time you
see a galaxy. The sun and stars have their gravitational strength
strongest along its 'equator'. What this means is that gravity will
trap the outer layers in a 'ring like' fashion before turning into rapid
red giant phase or even before going nova. This gravitational effect
explains how a 'dying star goes out with a ring' like formation. The
gravitional field of Saturn for example allows for superconducting and
magnetic elements in its vicinity to be captured forming the beautiful
Rings of Saturn.

I tend to describe gravity as the 'pancake force', which is really an
interdimensional 'cubic force'. You could think of gravity waves as an
oscillating trapezoidal feature of space and time where all the corners
warp and bounce back and forth between each other like a continuous
warping of 'cubic space'. In this sense gravity waves is an oscillating
wave form or tidal force. Magnetic fields are oscillations of time
waves. Thus in our universe we have the 'cross' of space and time where
gravity is an infinitely long strait line 'horizontal' to magnetic
fields. Electromagnetic light forms the Pyramidal or 'conic' illusion
of 3 dimensionality in our universe. Some particles already known and
studied are seen to be right on the 'threshold' of the higher dimension
known as the 5th dimension.

Another usenet sociopath cries out for help

Paul Lawler wrote:

"Steve Willner" wrote in message
...

In article

ble.rogers.com,

Mad Scientist writes:

Matter begins to collect at the stars equator due to gravity forces,
before being cast off. I see the 'brilliant intellects' at NASA
haven't realized this yet.

What do you mean by this, and why do you think it happens? Is it
like all the oceans on Earth collecting at the equator?


He doesn't "mean" anything... he's a troll. He makes wild assertions
with no evidence, and when called on it quickly devolves into ad hominem
attacks and personal insults.

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:44:18 GMT, Mad Scientist
wrote:


Paul Lawler wrote:

"Steve Willner" wrote in message
...

In article

ble.rogers.com,

Mad Scientist writes:

Matter begins to collect at the stars equator due to gravity forces,
before being cast off. I see the 'brilliant intellects' at NASA
haven't realized this yet.

What do you mean by this, and why do you think it happens? Is it
like all the oceans on Earth collecting at the equator?


He doesn't "mean" anything... he's a troll. He makes wild assertions
with no evidence, and when called on it quickly devolves into ad hominem
attacks and personal insults.


Another usenet sociopath cries out for help



Thanks for proving his point.





--
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Member,Board of Directors of afa-b, SKEP-TI-CULT® member #15-51506-253.
You can email me at: DrJaiMaharajFraud(at)hotmail.com

"Did the Venus transit occur during sunset, idiot?"
- Grant,on the GLP web board, explains to us how
sunrise happens in NY and Asia at the same time.

Another sociopath spews some hot air.

DrPostman wrote:

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:44:18 GMT, Mad Scientist
wrote:



Paul Lawler wrote:


"Steve Willner" wrote in message
...


In article

.cable.rogers.com,


Mad Scientist writes:


Matter begins to collect at the stars equator due to gravity forces,
before being cast off. I see the 'brilliant intellects' at NASA
haven't realized this yet.

What do you mean by this, and why do you think it happens? Is it
like all the oceans on Earth collecting at the equator?


He doesn't "mean" anything... he's a troll. He makes wild assertions
with no evidence, and when called on it quickly devolves into ad hominem
attacks and personal insults.



Another usenet sociopath cries out for help




Thanks for proving his point.





--
Dr.Postman USPS, MBMC, BsD; "Disgruntled, But Unarmed"
Member,Board of Directors of afa-b, SKEP-TI-CULT® member #15-51506-253.
You can email me at: DrJaiMaharajFraud(at)hotmail.com

"Did the Venus transit occur during sunset, idiot?"
- Grant,on the GLP web board, explains to us how
sunrise happens in NY and Asia at the same time.

"Mad Scientist" wrote in message...
t.cable.rogers.com...

Gravity in any galactic object is strongest at the 'equator' which could
be thought of as a disk. In our solar system, the planets rotate around
the 'solar disk'. The galactic arms of any galaxy are generally spread
out according to a 'galactic disk-like' form, depending on what time you
see a galaxy. The sun and stars have their gravitational strength
strongest along its 'equator'. What this means is that gravity will
trap the outer layers in a 'ring like' fashion before turning into rapid
red giant phase or even before going nova. This gravitational effect
explains how a 'dying star goes out with a ring' like formation. The
gravitional field of Saturn for example allows for superconducting and
magnetic elements in its vicinity to be captured forming the beautiful
Rings of Saturn.

I tend to describe gravity as the 'pancake force', which is really an
interdimensional 'cubic force'. You could think of gravity waves as an
oscillating trapezoidal feature of space and time where all the corners
warp and bounce back and forth between each other like a continuous
warping of 'cubic space'. In this sense gravity waves is an oscillating
wave form or tidal force. Magnetic fields are oscillations of time
waves. Thus in our universe we have the 'cross' of space and time where
gravity is an infinitely long strait line 'horizontal' to magnetic
fields. Electromagnetic light forms the Pyramidal or 'conic' illusion
of 3 dimensionality in our universe. Some particles already known and
studied are seen to be right on the 'threshold' of the higher dimension
known as the 5th dimension.

When you think about it, MS, there are two things you may not
be considering when you state that gravity is strongest at the
equator... as most large, spherical objects are oblate spheroids
due to their rotation, there is more mass on the equatorial plane
than in any other plane. So this would tend to make you correct.

However, the spinning force of large oblate spheroids means that
the equator will be the place where spin velocity will be greatest.
Wouldn't this high velocity tend to *decrease* gravitational force
at the equator?

It is this reason that, when protosolar system nebulas condense
and spin faster and faster, it is believed that at some point a disk,
called an accretion disk, may quickly spread out from the equator
of the forming protostar. This disk of material can then condense
and become planets, satellites, asteroids, KBOs and whatever
else. Not long after, the protosun "fuses" and begins to burn its
hydrogen... it becomes a star. Its new solar wind blows much of
the loose debris of the accretion disk into the far regions of the
solar system, and only the larger planets and planetoids remain.

Also, since Saturn's rings are found within Saturn's Roche limit,
i offer that this is another explanation for the existence of the rings
of Saturn...

http://pegasus.phast.umass.edu/a100/handouts/roche.html

http://www.britannica.com/ebc/articl...ery=saturn&ct=

hd&ssn
Paine

Speaking of the 'cubic' gravitational field, check out the 'logo' of the
Space Environment Center. Spooky...

http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/indexback56.html
http://dogfeathers.com/java/hyperstar.html
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/corespike.htm
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/indexback55.html

And this solar eruption gif is a must see he
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/mulcubasm.gif
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/ncbe02.gif

And possible depictions of gravity and time waves (and space, time and
energy) within the hypersphere as taught by Higher Intelligence:
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2...nake2004a.html
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2...dean2004b.html
http://ascension2000.com/Shift-of-the-Ages/shift07.htm

DrPostman wrote:

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:44:18 GMT, Mad Scientist
wrote:



Paul Lawler wrote:


"Steve Willner" wrote in message
...


In article

.cable.rogers.com,


Mad Scientist writes:


Matter begins to collect at the stars equator due to gravity forces,
before being cast off. I see the 'brilliant intellects' at NASA
haven't realized this yet.

What do you mean by this, and why do you think it happens? Is it
like all the oceans on Earth collecting at the equator?


He doesn't "mean" anything... he's a troll. He makes wild assertions
with no evidence, and when called on it quickly devolves into ad hominem
attacks and personal insults.



Another usenet sociopath cries out for help




Thanks for proving his point.





--
Dr.Postman USPS, MBMC, BsD; "Disgruntled, But Unarmed"
Member,Board of Directors of afa-b, SKEP-TI-CULT® member #15-51506-253.
You can email me at: DrJaiMaharajFraud(at)hotmail.com

"Did the Venus transit occur during sunset, idiot?"
- Grant,on the GLP web board, explains to us how
sunrise happens in NY and Asia at the same time.