During the final month composing The Science of Kissing, it can be challenging to maintain a sense of the manuscript’s ‘big picture‘ while getting lost editing a single paragraph at a time. Fortunately, The Daily Dish has provided the distance and perspective I need–perhaps even a glimpse of the ‘first kiss’ ever–with this view of NGC 6302, a butterfly-shaped nebula surrounding a dying star. It’s just 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation:
Looks like a kiss to me too… Thanks Andrew!
September 9th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
It looks like two expanding clouds of thin, ionized gas.
September 10th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Andrew Sullivan, classy conservative:
http://sullivanarchives.theatlantic.com/thewar.php
The terrorists have done the rest. The middle part of the country – the great red zone that voted for Bush – is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead – and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column. But by striking at the heart of New York City, the terrorists ensured that at least one deep segment of the country ill-disposed toward a new president is now the most passionate in his defense. Anyone who has ever tried to get one over on a New Yorker knows what I mean. The demons who started this have no idea about the kind of people they have taken on.
Never mind his promotion of Charles Murray at TNR…
September 10th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Ever heard of butterfly kisses?
September 10th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Ever heard of butterfly kisses?
BTW I love your blog!
September 10th, 2009 at 8:58 am
The image from Hubble is completely dreamlike.. gauzy and delicate, fragile and most beautiful. Yor’re right, I would also call it The First Kiss.
September 10th, 2009 at 9:18 am
That photo has an awesome, beautiful and and romantic quality to it.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Can we keep the comments politics free, please?
Lets focus on the science.
I ***LOVE*** that photo.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
It’s pretty clear now; the first forms of life that God created were angelfish
September 28th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
That photo became my wallpaper the moment space.com showed the new hubble photos!