Rivers of Gas in the Swan Nebula (M17)

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Rivers of Gas Flow Around Stars in New Space Image
NASA/JPL Mission News - Spitzer Space Telescope - 2008 Dec 08

• A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material. The picture provides some of the best examples yet of the ripples of gas, or bow shocks, that can form around stars in choppy cosmic waters.

Celestial Sea of Stars

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitz ... 81208.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitz ... 1208a.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitz ... 81208.html

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Ben Jonson's To the memory of my beloved, the Author,
from the First Folio, 1623

"Sweet swan of Avon! what a sight it were
To see thee in our waters yet appeare,
And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames,
That so did take Eliza, and our James !
But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere
Advanc'd, and made a Constellation there !
Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage,
Or influence, chide, or cheere the drooping Stage;
Which, since thy flight fro' hence, hath mourn'd like night,
And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light."
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