Stardust to Stardust
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The Life Cycle of a Solar System A Short Picture Story by Wynn Wolfe Credit: NASA, NASA Artists https://wynnwolfe.com
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- 1. Stardust to Stardust The Life Cycle of a Solar System A Short Picture Story by Wynn Wolfe Credit: NASA, NASA Artists
- 2. Red Giant stars expel stardust…
- 3. which create all variety of Planetary Nebulae…
- 4. that dissipate into gargantuan fields of stardust and gas…
- 5. which eventually re-coagulate from small Bok Globules…
- 6. to star-forming pillars and clouds trillions of miles in length…
- 7. that beget Proplyds from within…
- 8. and spin to Protoplanetary Disks without…
- 9. that create solar systems like ours…
- 10. and overwhelming numbers of exo-planets orbiting other stars, other solar systems, up to 150 million light years away, discovered by NASA’s earth-orbiting Kepler Space Observatory launched in 2008…
- 11. some located in the so-called habitable zone — perhaps with water…
- 12. like our home planet Earth…
- 13. from which emerge life and consciousness…
- 14. whose educated imaginations take flight…
- 15. to learn from Nature…
- 16. to ultimately give back to Nature.
- 17. Last words from a letter of condolence by Albert Einstein to the Besso family on the passing of his lifelong friend Michele Besso, March, 1955…
- 18. “…People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”