Do you know what this image reminds me of? The action of the common firework
named "ground bloom flower".
The firework is a cylinder with a nozzle at an unbalanced position: the wall of
the cylinder, shooting out perpendicular to the wall, at one extreme end.
"Light fuse and get away" -- the cylinder tumbles chaotically and might fly in
the air briefly, but often settles into a regular spinning pattern against the
ground surface.
I read somewhere the Cat's Eye might be a binary. Perhaps two
gravitationally-bound stars act like the ends of the firework cylinder, with
one dying star supplying an unbalanced jet.
--- Mark Berger wrote:
> A larger version of the photo is at
> http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/screen/heic0414a.jpg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Hawley
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 7:11 AM
>
>
> I saw this posted from another news group
>
> http://www.world-science.net/newspg2/040909_catseyefrm.htm
>
> Rob Hawley
Received on Thu Sep 9 16:41:53 2004
