This image of the Butterfly Nebula just amazes me. It’s from Discover’s best of the year collection. All 10 can be seen here
Although at the time I didn’t post about this image specifically, this shot of NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula, is a jaw-dropper. It’s a planetary nebula, the gas emitted from a star not unlike the Sun as it finally dies after billions of years. The core of the star undergoes various paroxysms, and those are reflected in the outer layers, which expand and contract over millions of years. A gust of material blows away from the dying star like a super solar wind, and as the star heats up the gas glows.
A GAO investigator managed to obtain four genuine U.S. passports using fake names and fraudulent documents. In one case, he used the Social Security number of a man who had died in 1965. In another, he used the Social Security number of a fictitious 5-year-old child created for a previous investigation, along with an ID showing that he was 53 years old. The investigator then used one of the fake passports to buy a plane ticket, obtain a boarding pass, and make it through a security checkpoint at a major U.S. airport.
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