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A massive young star cluster in the Milky Way

The Hubble takes the best pictures, doesn’t it? These jewels in the night are from the giant nebula NGC 3603. It’s only 20,000 light years away. What I wouldn’t give to have a TARDIS so that I could pop over and take a look a bit closer up.

My day was a bit of a blur. I discovered that a certain person at work who has been a bit…overly friendly won’t be bugging me for a bit. Needless to say, I’m relieved. I really don’t like it when people hit on me. A little flirting is fine, but that’s not the same thing. I’m thinking that I will start wearing my engagement ring more often, even if it doesn’t nestle against my wedding ring properly. Just to make the ring finger more noticeable. Also, it looks like I’m on the blog committee for my branch. (Actually…I may *be* the blog committee.) I expect that it’s up to me to make sure that the blog is marketed well and has a lot of fresh content. I’ll find out at the meeting with my boss and her boss on Tuesday. I’ve got a lot of ideas. Let’s just hope that I can translate them well enough for the non-bloggers I’ll be talking with.

Wish me luck for tomorrow. I have to get a new drivers’ license and go in search of my mail organizer. *stress*

And now, my daily good and bad:

Good: Well, I thought that today’s good was going to be “no one hit on me at work” or “The blog at work is mine muahahaha”, but I was wrong. One of my friends I hadn’t heard from for a while posted her personal statement from her college apps on her LJ, and I was one of the folks she dedicated it to. Colour me excessively honoured.

Bad: My mail organizer is lost somewhere. The company has it listed as delivered, but the only thing I’ve received it the free DVD. *sob* Tomorrow, after I deal with the driver’s license, I’m going to stop by the post office and see if there is anything I can do.

The HubbleSite now brings us an image of the Carina Nebula. In this active area stars are being born and dying. Beautiful, isn’t it?

I was just pondering my obsession with Mars, and I thought I’d post another pic from the Hubblesite to counteract my rant earlier. Mind you, I’m still upset that I won’t be able to get to Mars…unless kidnapped by aliens I suppose…

Mars

So, I was just over on the HubbleSite, and in their news section that had this beautiful picture of the Hubble’s View of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672. For the record, NGC 1672 is a little more than 60 million light years away from us.

NASA Says: “As a prototypical barred spiral galaxy, NGC 1672 differs from normal spiral galaxies, in that the arms do not twist all the way into the center. Instead, they are attached to the two ends of a straight bar of stars enclosing the nucleus. Viewed nearly face on, NGC 1672 shows intense star formation regions especially off in the ends of its central bar.”

Pretty nice for star-forming clouds and interstellar dust, eh? Yes, this is my new desktop wallpaper.

HubbleSite, Barred Spiral Galaxy

It’s late, and I’m waiting on my server to get fixed, so I thought that I’d share a cool website with you all. My cube at work is boring (rather like my hair was, come to think of it) and bare, so I decided to add some pictures to the walls. I should mention here that I’ve just finished weeding the Astronomy section, so I thought it might be nice to look at bits of the universe while I work. Conveniently, The Hubble Telescope has a website with a gallery containing all sorts of gorgeous images. One of my favorites is the Black Eye Galaxy. Yum! Take a look around. There’s even wallpapers for your computer. Well, I’m off to bed now. May your night be full of stars!

Hubble Telescope, Black Eye Galaxy