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Photo #2 (September 2007)
COSMIC TORNADO - HH49/50
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.
- William Shakespeare
King Lear (Edmund at I, ii)
We enjoy miracles such as these views of tornados among the stars.
We suffer hurricanes on earth - made worse by global heating.
Our task today, the obligation of every human being, is to do whatever we can to help our planet survive and be hospitable to continued life on this earth. If politics and greedy businessmen are endangering our planet, we must not sit back and blame them. We must do whatever we can to change their approaches and actions.
What one thing can you do to contribute to the survival of life on our planet?
- Daniel Benor, MD
Credit: J. Bally (Univ. of Colorado) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA
Light-years in length, this cosmic tornado is actually a powerful jet cataloged as HH (Herbig-Haro) 49/50 blasting down from the top of a Spitzer Space Telescope view. Though such energetic outflows are well known to be associated with the formation of young stars, the exact cause of the spiraling structures apparent in this case is still mysterious. The embryonic star responsible for the 100-kilometer per second jet is located just off the top of the picture, while the bright star seen near the tip of the jet may just by chance lie along the line of sight. In the false-color infrared image, the tornado glows with infrared light generated as the outflow heats surrounding dust clouds. The color coding shows a trend from red to blue hues at the tornado's tip indicating a systematic increase in emission at shorter wavelengths. The trend is thought to indicate an increase in molecular excitation closer to where the head of the jet is impacting interstellar gas. HH49/50 is about 450 light-years distant, located in the Chamaeleon I molecular cloud.
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