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One is that I when I took out my ‘scope as a kid, the very first thing I’d look at on summer nights was the Ring Nebula.
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… and he was right. Five years later the first hot Jupiters were found.
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But… when I wrote my 2nd book, “Death from the Skies!”, I had a chapter in there about how the Sun dies. I did a LOT of research for it.
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But there’s a fourth reason, too. It doesn’t make me wistful so much as amazed. Awed, I suppose. We’ve come so far studying these incredible objects. We know so much more about them.
I mean, seriously: How can you not be excited to see something like THE FLAMING SKULL NEBULA?
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Enjoy.
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