The Eye of God....
This picture has already been making the rounds through email and has been featured on several other websites and blogs, but after I received this yesterday, I guess I just couldn't resist posting it myself.
This is the original caption of the email it came in:
This photo is a very rare one, taken by NASA.
This kind of event occurs once in 3000 years.
This photo has done miracles in many lives.
Make a wish... you have looked at the eye of God.
This is a picture NASA took with the Hubble telescope.
Called "The Eye of God".
Too awesome to delete. It is worth sharing.
I made a quick search for information about this photo on Google, and it directed me to this brief article on About.com:
Comments: This is indeed an authentic photograph — or rather, composite of photos — taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. It was featured on NASA's Website as an Astronomy Picture of the Day in May 2003 and thereafter posted on a number of Websites under the title "The Eye of God" (though I couldn't find evidence that NASA has ever referred to it as such). The awe-inspiring image has also been featured on magazine covers and in articles about space imagery.
The image depicts the so-called Helix Nebula, described by astronomers as "a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases." At its center is dying, Sun-like star which has ejected masses of dust and gas to form tentacle-like filaments stretching toward an outer rim composed of the same material. The Sun itself may look like this in several billion years.
It's really humbling to realize how truly insignificant we are in the vastness of the universe.
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