Thoughts provoked

An unusually "perfect" cosmic corkscrew surrounds the binary star system LL Pegasi in a new   Hubble Space Telescope   picture released this week. Take a look !  Isn't this is coooool :)  Astronomers think t he spiral's evenly spaced rings are being created because one of the stars in the binary pair is dying. Unlike more massive stars that end their lives in explosive   supernovae , LL Pegasi is quietly shedding its outer layers of gas and dust to form what's called a planetary nebula. The dying star itself is still hidden by a dusty cocoon. But it's ejecting material at about 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) an hour, the researchers calculate, forming a new ring in the spiral every 800 years - wow! Oh! and for the star gazers,  for the next week or so sky-watchers in the Northern Hemisphere will have the chance to see an elusive celestial pyramid known as the zodiacal light.  False Dawn or  Zodiacal Light or what-so-ever.. this pic is just amazing! the

Oh! I was downloading eclipse , and I remembered mom watching TV an listening to the news channels buzzing around with the news of the first lunar hide n seek.... and with the astrologers telling the do's n dont's on the day of the eclipse - I remember one - not to eat during the peak time of the eclipse. Well, I looked for the time of the eclipse n came across this "delicious" pic.... err... well I was hungry na! Damn! who's gonna wait till 10 pm! I could already hear the bhangra music :P of the rehearsals the mice in my stomach were planning....! Ah! its the first lunar eclipse of 2009.. approximately 11 days after the first solar eclipse. Here's a pretty cool site I found about the celestial events in 2009 and more years. Moving from the "hunger-panged-world" to some astronomy: This illustration shows the penumbral lunar eclipse on February 9, 2009. It is fairly close to scale and illustrates how th e moon passes through the penumbral portion of