Cool Picture of the Day

From the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Everything in this image is x-rays, and it's really nothing more than x-rays emanating from a nebula that used to be star.

And yet...wow. Kinda reminds me of that classic Green Lantern tale where we learn that an ancient member of the Guardians' race named Krona looked back to the dawn of time and saw a hand holding a nebula. Maybe this is what Krona saw?

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I have been notified by our IT guy that LJ uses too much bandwidth. (They are getting really tough about this, and I can't deny that I do a lot of checking of LJ that is not work-related.) So I am turning off any and all downloading of icons during business hours for the time being. If anyone has any suggestions about other ways to cut bandwidth before I get cut off from LJ here, please let me know.

ETA: Without images, threads don't stack the same way! That's just weird.