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The Garden Room aboard Royal Viking Sun - photographed in 1996 - note the chairs and tables are still the same as those today aboard Prinsendam.
March 8, 2010-- Today me and Tucker bought a box of Girl Scout cookies. I would have preferred Tagalongs, but he's allergic to nuts, so he can't have peanut butter. So I had to settle for Samoas...it wasn't too hard of a settle, though. :)
Kenny is picking up a bad habit: starting different books and not finishing any of them. At this rate, we do not have to get him any new books until he is ready to graduate from grade school.
Strobist:
LP160, SBIII, camera left
LP160, heade tilted vertically, bare, camera right
In visible light, the star-forming cloud catalogued as NGC 281 in the constellation of Cassiopeia appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the Pacman nebula after the famous Pac-Man video game of the 1980s. However, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, observed the nebula in infrared light revealing a different view.
NGC 281 is a giant cloud of dust and gas located about 9,200 light-years away within our own Milky Way Galaxy, and spans about 130 light-years in space. Inside the cloud, a new cluster of stars is forming. This young cluster, called IC 1590, appears as a group of stars near the center of the red and green cloud in the upper portion of the image. Within the cluster there are several very massive stars, many times the mass of the Sun. These stars are also very hot and produce large amounts of ultraviolet radiation and blow strong winds. The radiation and winds erode the larger cloud from the inside out, giving it a shell-like appearance. The winds and radiation also heat the dust in the cloud, which then glows in infrared light. The wavelengths at which the dust glows depends on the temperatures.
The process of the erosion of the nebula by the young star cluster is thought to trigger additional formation of stars. Around the edges of NGC 281 are many long columns pointing toward the central star cluster, giving the appearance of the Pacman with teeth. These are parts of the cloud that are a bit more dense, and hence erode more slowly than the rest of the cloud. At the tips of these columns, the material may be compressed enough to set off the formation of new stars. Also, sprinkled around the images are several star-like objects that appear very red. These are likely baby stars in the early stages of formation. They are wrapped in cocoons of dust, which glow strongly in the longer wavelengths, giving them their red color in this image.
This image was made from observations by all four infrared detectors aboard WISE. Blue and cyan (blue-green) represent infrared light at wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.6 microns, which is primarily from stars, the hottest objects pictured. Green and red represent light at 12 and 22 microns, which is primarily from warm dust (with the green dust being warmer than the red dust).
Mornings are terrible sometimes. You know, the ones where you just never ever want to bother getting out of bed. But...but if you do decide to get up it can really be worth it. Mostly at least. Until you crawl back in that night and realize sleeping would have been so much easier.
Thats life. Living, loving, getting messy, getting hurt, being bored, being loud, getting crazy, getting sad, singing, laughing, dancing, crying, yelling, breaking. All of it.
You can't ever learn to love the ups if you never experience the downs of life. But in the end it always would have been easier if you had just sat that one out. Thats the point though, you didn't. You stuck through it. You experienced it. You learned from it. Whats a life locked up and put away? It isn't a life. Thats why you should face the fear and take a chance. Even if you get hurt, there will always be someone there to catch you when you fall.