MooPig Star Crossed Department :: Stardust

A Year on Neptune
Mixed Martial Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Dec 19, 2014  |  Bryan TX



I thought of this title before I thought of what to write.





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NASA Talk :: Orion Nebula

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Feb 11, 2013 | Bryan TX

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The Cosmic Hearth
The Orion nebula is featured in this sweeping image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellation of Orion is prominent in the evening sky throughout the world from about December through April of each year. The nebula (also catalogued as Messier 42) is located in the sword of Orion, hanging from his famous belt of three stars. The star cluster embedded in the nebula is visible to the unaided human eye as a single star, with some fuzziness apparent to the most keen-eyed observers. Because of its prominence, cultures all around the world have given special significance to Orion. The Maya of Mesoamerica envision the lower portion of Orion, his belt and feet (the stars Saiph and Rigel), as being the hearthstones of creation, similar to the triangular three-stone hearth that is at the center of all traditional Maya homes. The Orion nebula, lying at the center of the triangle, is interpreted by the Maya as the cosmic fire of creation surrounded by smoke.

This metaphor of a cosmic fire of creation is apt. The Orion nebula is an enormous cloud of dust and gas where vast numbers of new stars are being forged. It is one of the closest sites of star formation to Earth and therefore provides astronomers with the best view of stellar birth in action. Many other telescopes have been used to study the nebula in detail, finding wonders such as planet-forming disks forming around newly forming stars. WISE was an all-sky survey giving it the ability to see these sites of star formation in a larger context. This view spans more than six times the width of the full moon, covering a region nearly 100 light-years across. In it, we see the Orion nebula surrounded by large amounts of interstellar dust, colored green.

Astronomers now realize that the Orion nebula is part of the larger Orion molecular cloud complex, which also includes the Flame nebula. This complex in our Milky Way galaxy is actively making new stars. It is filled with dust warmed by the light of the new stars within, making the dust glow in infrared light.

Color in this image represents specific infrared wavelengths. Blue represents light emitted at 3.4-micron wavelengths and cyan (blue-green) represents 4.6 microns, both of which come mainly from hot stars. Relatively cooler objects, such as the dust of the nebulae, appear green and red. Green represents 12-micron light and red represents 22-micron light.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Page Last Updated: February 6, 2013
Page Editor: Tony Greicius
NASA Official: Brian Dunbar

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/pia16684.html

NASA Talk :: LL Ori and the Orion Nebula

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Feb 11, 2013 | Bryan TX

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LL Ori and the Orion Nebula
This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow. Adrift in Orion's stellar nursery and still in its formative years, variable star LL Orionis produces a wind more energetic than the wind from our own middle-aged Sun. As the fast stellar wind runs into slow moving gas a shock front is formed, analogous to the bow wave of a boat moving through water or a plane traveling at supersonic speed.

The small, arcing, graceful structure just above and left of center is LL Ori's cosmic bow shock, measuring about half a light-year across. The slower gas is flowing away from the Orion Nebula's hot central star cluster, the Trapezium, located off the upper left corner of the picture. In three dimensions, LL Ori's wrap-around shock front is shaped like a bowl that appears brightest when viewed along the "bottom" edge. The beautiful picture is part of a large mosaic view of the complex stellar nursery in Orion, filled with a myriad of fluid shapes associated with star formation.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team
Page Last Updated: February 4, 2013
Page Editor: Steve Fox
NASA Official: Brian Dunbar


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http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2442.html

MooPig's Star Linger Power Department :: "Stardust" PART ONE

How long a Star Lingers up there is Paramount
by Pat Darnell  |  Jan 20, 2013  |  Bryan TX

What prompts this discussion is a billion dollar business. On the Red Carpet of stardom is a map of the birth, life, and, death, of stars.

Cue 'Stardust.' MooPig Star Linger Power Department has begun a new measuring tact that will give a number to a star's linger power ... stick-around-it-ness. It seems like a good idea at the outset, but we are not finding any substance to the concept. Except that some stars are paid up to $42k to wear certain clothes, and accessories: bags, jewelry and shoes, all happening during negotiations before an event like the Oscars.

Quick Poll   ... Are leggings acceptable to wear in public?

• Yes! They're just tight pants.
• No! They are too tight. Save for exercise and travel only.

There is a new software, app or such, that puts a tag on the items in the photo of your favorite star that is lingering in the ring of stardom. You simply find your star d' jour, and click on clothing items and accessories to find who designed and manufactured each of them. We're talking intimacy.

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The point being, whether the public wants it or not, certain persons become stars, and live a life of selling themselves. As stars live longer, well you guessed it, the longer star linger power each has. Examples alive today are: Wayne Newton, Joe Theismann or Terry Bradshaw, Helen Mirren, who are lingering at high levels.

How then do we spot a young star, a protostar, who will be with us for a long time. That is our mission in assigning a number to each newborn star to provide a derivative to Stock Brokers for investment futures, so they can hedge on them.

With some ease we can be assured that football stars will last a long time, RGIII, or Te'O. Young vegan health minded singers/songwriters should linger, and then there is false stars. Sarah Palin is a study in the false star category, but she is lingering, you have to admit.

In case you think otherwise, MooPig is nauseated by this bit of pseudo-science. It means that Justin Bieber, if he stays clear of fatty foods, misogynists, polyandrists, polygamists, escapologists, and pastors, ... will most likely be around for the next ninety years. I pity my children who must endure what all that implies.

Keith Richards might be the anti-thesis of this parody, but he sure enough has lingered ... we know you are thinking right now of stars who are suspiciously lingering out there.

If you are earnest in spotting who is the next rising protostars who will begin on the linger timeline, just tune in to cable TV Disney Channel. Watch a day's worth of "Austin and Ally", "Shake it Up!", "Wizards of Waverly Place", "Jessie", "Good Luck Charlie", and "ANT Farm" or "Dog with a blog." You will see first hand star linger power in its infancy, birthing out young starlets, with producers throwing money at them.

Our most lasting lingerers have come from the Disney Cartel.

ROUND 2: Who is your favorite male Disney child star of all-time?

• Cole and Dylan Sprouse
• Jonas Brothers
• Justin Timberlake
• Mitchel Musso
• Zac Efron

MooPig Star Linger Power Department would like to apply this model to our quest in measuring this burgeoning business:

" ... Stars are born in nebulae. Huge clouds of dust and gas collapse under gravitational forces, forming protostars. These young stars undergo further collapse, forming main sequence stars.

Stars expand as they grow old. As the core runs out of hydrogen and then helium, the core contracts and the outer layers expand, cool, and become less bright. This is a red giant or a red super giant (depending on the initial mass of the star). It will eventually collapse and explode. Its fate is determined by the original mass of the star; it will become either a black dwarf, neutron star, or black hole.

CONCLUSION
There is a problem here. Each of the people who concern themselves with their celebrity is vying for attention. There are not enough thirty-second segments in one day to put up with this onslaught of vanity. We the observer, the tactician, the MooPigster, are the poor bastards who will suffer bombardment of stuff of stars, lingering ever longer ... gulp.

Will this bullshit never cease? Not likely.

And remember what Paul says:

paul Posted at 9:14 PM on December 12, 2012
" ... If you don’t wear panties it’s your responseibilty to make sure you don’ flash your gash. ... "

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Coming up PART TWO :: "We look in on aging BINGO callers from the Star Power Linger List" [the LIST]

What Would She Wear: S/S 13
The S/S 13 runways were packed with standout looks and it's only a matter of time before our favorite celebs stake their claim. Accordingly, we've tapped into our crystal ball to predict who's going to wear what, from a vividly printed Marni coat (Solange!) to a slinky cutout Michael Kors gown (Rooney!). Click through our slideshow and let us know if you agree with our fashion clairvoyance!

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http://ryanseacrest.com/2013/01/15/round-2-favorite-male-disney-star/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/rihanna-selena-gomez-leggings_n_2082474.html
https://mrbarlow.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/star-life-cycle/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/stars/lifecycle/
http://www.whowhatwear.com/website/home.php
http://www.whowhatwear.com/website/celebrities-trendsetters/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/celebrities-wearing-glasses-photos_n_1952699.html
http://www.whowhatwear.com/website/slideshow-story/what-would-she-wear/
http://www.jessicasimpson.com/
http://hollywoodlife.com/pics/celebrity-wardrobe-malfunction-photos-2011-hollywood-nip-slip-spanx/#ref=/2012/12/11/anne-hathaway-upskirt-photo-wear-underwear/pos=
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/

MooPig's "Lifetime Fan" Department :: Duke Ellington

Recording a single is Advantageous in many ways

Singles or albums? This is the question we have pursed on our lips today.

If there had never been singles, we would have been deprived of this:
Tina Turner without Ike http://pribek.net/2007/10/06/music-industry-rip/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoNXsne8exg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_7s5fSNkIM&NR=1
and-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKSy5I3zsAA

see these links on Music Business:
http://pribek.net/2008/04/02/lets-get-a-hippie-in-here/
http://pribek.net/2007/10/08/more-on-tunickthe-future-of-the-music-businessorgan-grinders-monkey/
http://pribek.net/2008/02/19/hard-times-for-the-labor-of-love/

-and-

"The Searchers were arguably the greatest of the 'other' Liverpool groups. They produced a string of singles which compared in quality to the Beatles but possibly lacked the scale of originality and inventiveness peculiar to their famous rivals. They too had been a popular act in Hamburg and the Cavern and became famous on both sides of the Atlantic. "http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dirs/searchers.htm
--or--

This
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfxAEw0Exa0

and congruency--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg31kQiP1Zg