We are surrounded with the practical necessities of what we need to survive and enrich our lives. I really feel we should try to include beauty in the mix! I decided to create a blog featuring a variety of practical yet beautiful and joyful articles to live with. Many of them can be customized with your personal names and sayings.

Using my original photographs and designs I have created so many products for my online stores, Bebop's Place and Bebop's Weddings, and want to share them here. I am also constantly amazed at the fantastic products available from the rest of the Zazzle community and plan to showcase some of them as well. I am hoping viewers, in discovering this blog, will enjoy and possibly purchase some of these lovely items.

Friday, August 29, 2014

Dumbbell Nebula Constellation Vulpecula, The Fox Samsung Galaxy SIII Case

A gorgeous outer space lamp design from HightonRidley showing our universe in all its beauty. How would it look with your initials? Click to personalize and find out...


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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A great photo from deep space featuring the Dumbbell Nebula - also known as Messier 27 or NGC 6853. It's a typical planetary nebula and is located in the constellation Vulpecula (The Fox).

The distance is rather uncertain, but is believed to be around 1,200 light-years. It was first described by the French astronomer and comet hunter Charles Messier who found it in 1764 and included it as no. 27 in his famous list of extended sky objects.

Despite its class, the Dumbbell Nebula has nothing to do with planets. It consists of very rarefied gas that has been ejected from the hot central star (well visible on this photo), now in one of the last evolutionary stages. The gas atoms in the nebula are excited (heated) by the intense ultraviolet radiation from this star and emit strongly at specific wavelengths.

This image is the beautiful by-product of a technical test of some FORS1 narrow-band optical interference filters. They only allow light in a small wavelength range to pass and are used to isolate emissions from particular atoms and ions.

In this three-colour composite, a short exposure was first made through a wide-band filter registering blue light from the nebula. It was then combined with exposures through two interference filters in the light of double-ionized oxygen atoms and atomic hydrogen. They were colour-coded as “blue”, “green” and “red”, respectively, and then combined to produce this picture that shows the structure of the nebula in “approximately true” colours.



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Zazzle Cake Pop from Bebop's Weddings: Party Colors Wedding Cake Pops

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Cheerful polka dot bubbles and balloons in circles of the colors yellow, green, turquoise, blue, red, orange and pink decorate these joyful, festive wedding cake pops favor. All text can be customized for your special occasion. Click PARTY COLORS WEDDING to view the whole collection.

Party Colors Wedding Cake Pops

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Zazzle iPhone 6 Case from Bebops: Deer at Sunrise iPhone 6

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This iPhone 6 case features an early morning sunrise a brown white-tailed deer (odocolleus virginianus) who has been sleeping at the foot of a green evergreen tree. The eyes, neck and tail are white. The forest is tinged with orange light.

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Zazzle T-Shirt from teepossible: TOP Reach for the Wall

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Reach for the Wall swim slogan in pool background design on t-shirts, sweatshirts, and bumper stickers. Great for the swimmer, coach, parent, and fan.

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