Jan. 24th, 2009

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Rereading The Lies of Locke Lamora and I'm reminded how much I truly loathe the Falconer and all his Bondsmagi fellows. I honestly want to see him healed of his injuries just so they break him again, but slower. Fucking bullying assholes. Right now I'd say they come in just behind Blaise Jeannot Andrieux, and he's a sociopathic rapist...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day



Explanation: Blown by the wind from a massive star, this interstellar apparition has a surprisingly familiar shape. Cataloged as NGC 7635, it is also known simply as The Bubble Nebula. This colorful telescopic image includes a long exposure through a hydrogen alpha filter to reveal details of the cosmic bubble and its environment. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Above and right of the Bubble's center is a bright, hot, Wolf-Rayet star with a mass 10 to 20 times that of the Sun. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The intriguing Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia.

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