All Posts Tagged With: "Dawkins"
Pushing Back Against the Push-Back
I was unaware that writing books, giving lectures and making tv appearances can now be defined as fanatical. Or by saying “fanatically intolerant atheism personified by Richard Dawkins” is he suggesting that Dawkins and Hitchens are known to be hoarding weapons and organising groups of martyrs in order to suicide bomb churches and the like, [...]
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The Center for Naturalism
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A Chameleon Sky
The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL)
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