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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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Police Turn Volatile Afghan District Into Success Story
In Kapisa Province’s Tagab district, just 30 miles from Kabul, NATO forces are trying to use a hard-won peace to instill the authority of their firepower in the police, who are often seen as the weakest force in Afghanistan’s violent areas.
Officials: Taliban chief once at Gitmo
U.S. officials say the Taliban’s new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan is a former prisoner at the Guantanamo detention …
Congress faces manpower vs. weapons choice
With pay and benefits for the troops costing more, and with expenses to replace equipment worn down by operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon will have to do without some new weapons and hardware. But which ones?
Bomb kills Canadian soldier in Afghanistan
A roadside bomb exploded in southern Afghanistan, killing a Canadian soldier and wounding four others, the Canadian Department …
Obama hints at talks with Taleban
President Obama suggests there could be talks with moderate elements of the Taleban in Afghanistan.
Patrol kills 2 Afghan police who opened fire
A joint Afghan-coalition patrol killed two Afghan policemen who opened fire on their team in northeastern Afghanistan, the coalition …
US ‘not winning in Afghanistan’
US President Barack Obama says the US is not winning in Afghanistan, saying it is more complex than Iraq.
Obama’s Turkey visit to focus on Iraq, Afghanistan
For one of his first foreign visits, President Barack Obama will call on NATO ally Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim country viewed …
Clinton In Turkey; Obama Next To Go
For one of his first foreign trips, President Obama will visit NATO ally Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim country viewed as critical to aiding the U.S. pullout from Iraq, turning around the Afghanistan war and blocking Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Obama opens door to more moderate Taliban
President Barack Obama is holding out hope that U.S. forces in Afghanistan can peel away elements of the Taliban and possibly …
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