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Day 8: A Violent Birth Announcement. Cloaked in a haze of golden gas and dust is IRAS 14568-6304, an infant star, about 2,500 light-years away. It appears to be embedded within an intriguing swoosh of dark sky, which curves through the image and obscures the sky behind. This dark region is known as the Circinus molecular cloud. This cloud has a mass around 250,000 times that of the Sun, and it is filled with gas, dust and young stars. IRAS 14568-6304 is special because it is driving a protostellar jet, which appears here as the "tail" below the star. This jet is the leftover gas and dust that the star took from its parent cloud in order to form. While most of this material forms the star and its accretion disc—the disc of material surrounding the star, which may one day form planets—at some point in the formation process the star began to eject some of the material at supersonic speeds through space. This phenomenon is not only beautiful, but can also provide us with valuable clues about the process of star formation.

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happens with 29ers often.......Just saying :whistling:

Almost the same happened to me today twice, had to pull over for a "nature call" and my front wheel went into deeper loose sand but I managed to jump over the handlebars in a superman motion. (I'm riding a 29er [emoji850][emoji33][emoji85])

 

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