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Mira and Her Tail

2007/08/16

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Mira and Her Tail

Mira and Her Tail
Mira and Her Tail

from http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/20070815/a.html:

A new ultraviolet mosaic from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows a speeding star that is leaving an enormous trail of "seeds" for new solar systems. The star, named Mira (pronounced my-rah) after the latin word for "wonderful," is shedding material that will be recycled into new stars, planets and possibly even life as it hurls through our galaxy.

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