ESA scientists said that Herschel can see into the cosmic clouds where new stars are forming in the many "dusty cocoons". Here, over many hundreds of millions of years, stars are being born as gravity draws cosmic dust into a dense fireball that triggers nuclear fusion and the release of light – the moment when a star begins to shine.
The Herschel image shows at least five concentric rings of star-forming dust. The brightest ring, some 75,000 light years across, may be the result of an earlier collision with a smaller galaxy, astronomers suggested.
The blue points of light come from the shock waves of exploded stars or stars that have become locked together in a gravitational fight to the death. In these deadly embraces, ESA said, one star has already died and is pulling gas from its still-living companion.
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Crane mythology is widely spread and can be found in areas such as the Aegean, South Arabia, China, Korea, Japan and in the Native American cultures of North America. In northern Hokkaidō, the women of the Ainu people performed a crane dance that was captured in 1908 in a photograph by Arnold Genthe. In Korea, a crane dance has been performed in the courtyard of the Tongdosa Temple since the Silla Dynasty (646 CE). In Mecca, in pre-Islamic South Arabia, Allāt, Uzza, and Manah were believed to be the three chief goddesses of Mecca, they were called the "three exalted cranes"
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The Common Crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian Crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes.
It is a large, stately bird and a medium-sized crane at 100–130 cm (40–52 in) long, with a 180–240 cm (71–96 in) wingspan and a weight of 4.5–6 kg (10–13.2 lbs). It is grey with a white facial streak and a bunch of black wing plumes. Adults have a red crown patch. It has a loud trumpeting call, given in flight and display. It has a dancing display, leaping with wings uplifted.
It breeds in wetlands in northern parts of Europe and Asia. The global population is in the region of 210,000-250,000, with the vast majority nesting in Russia and Scandinavia.
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