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Gray Hairs and Nebulae
April 2020 marked the 30th Anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit. My husband and I watched the fascinating, well, actually astounding pictures taken by the Hubble’s camera! Astronauts installed successive, more sophisticated cameras in later years, to help bring into view images that are myriads of light-years away! What held me spellbound was the nebula and nebulae. From NASA’s Space Place for Kids (yes, kids), I learned: … a nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. Some nebulae (more than one nebula) come from the gas and dust thrown out by the explosion of a dying star, such as a supernova. Other nebulae…