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Cinders and Shadows

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"For we're cinders and shadows, but we're also the sun. And it's when we deny this that we become undone." -Storm Greenwood
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Day 95 Bit late posting, but I actually did two drawings today in the theme of flower close ups 🌼 Here's the first and I'll share the second in the morning. Happy weekend! Created with Panpastels and charcoal on Strathmore toned gray paper. 5x7 in about 40 minutes.

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NGC 1499: The California Nebula : Could Queen Calafia’s mythical island exist in space? Perhaps not, but by chance the outline of this molecular space cloud echoes the outline of the state of California, USA. Our Sun has its home within the Milky Way’s Orion Arm, only about 1,000 light-years from the California Nebula. Also known as NGC 1499, the classic emission nebula is around 100 light-years long. On the featured image, the most prominent glow of the California Nebula is the red light characteristic of hydrogen atoms recombining with long lost electrons, stripped away (ionized) by energetic starlight. The star most likely providing the energetic starlight that ionizes much of the nebular gas is the bright, hot, bluish Xi Persei just to the right of the nebula. A regular target for astrophotographers, the California Nebula can be spotted with a wide-field telescope under a dark sky toward the constellation of Perseus, not far from the Pleiades. via NASA

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An Infrared View of the M81 Galaxy : Located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major, which also includes the Big Dipper, nearby galaxy Messier 81 is easily visible through binoculars or a small telescope. (via NASA)