The lights on the Nativity scene

 

 

“Almost everyone who’s been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.” – Jim Crace

Credits: utpal shah, Beautiful GIFS and Google+, BrainyQuote

Making a star

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Simulation of star formation by collapse of molecular clouds (2008). The calculation models the collapse and fragmentation of a molecular cloud with a mass 50 times that of our Sun. The cloud is initially 1.2 light-years (9.5 million million kilometres) in diameter, with a temperature of 10 Kelvin (-263 degrees Celsius).

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Credits: The Formation of Stars and Brown Dwarfs and the Truncation of Protoplanetary Discs in a Star Cluster, Matthew R. Bate, Ian A. Bonnell, Volker Bromm, UK Astrophysical Fluids Facility, University of Leicester, Francis Villatoro and YouTube via Timm Drossart, animated GIFs and Google+

From forth the celestial rose…

 

… came a magnitude of vibrant and young blue-white stars, adoring the heavens whilst finding their place in the cosmos.

Credits: Eden Crooks via Susan Boyle Boyle, Gata Negra, LOVELY GIFS✿*ڰۣ*, Google+ and GMail