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I saw an image at last night's talk that I just had to post. I have seen this image many times before but never noticed what I am about to show you. Last night's talk (the Allison-Levick Lecture) by Fred Watson of the Anglo-Australian Observatory (more info here) was very interesting. I even went for a nice balti afterwards with the guys from the AAO. One thing that really struck me from this talk was one particular image which he showed and described:


Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), N. Walborn (STScI) and R. Barbß (La Plata Obs.), NASA

All I am going to say is that it is a very thought provoking image. Maybe God is sending us a message? I think a better description is on NASA's APOD site (here is the page): "Explanation: This dense cloud of gas and dust is being deleted. Likely, within a few million years, the intense light from bright stars will have boiled it away completely. Stars not yet formed in the molecular cloud's interior will then stop growing. The cloud has broken off of part of the greater Carina Nebula, a star forming region about 8000 light years away. Newly formed stars are visible nearby, their images reddened by blue light being preferentially scattered by the pervasive dust. This unusually-colored image spans about two light years and was taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. This Carina sub-cloud is particularly striking partly because its clear definition stimulates the human imagination (e.g. it could be perceived as a superhero flying through a cloud, arm up, with a saved person in tow below)."

Or maybe we should follow the principles of Occams Razor - sometimes the most simplest explanation is the best!
Oh and here is the larger image. The above is a effectively a zoomed in version - you will see the nebula on the left hand side.