http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/ht ... 0905a.html
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. The Merchant of Venice > Act III, scene II
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BASSANIO: Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
. To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
. Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,
. The seeming truth which cunning times put on
. To entrap the wisest.
http://www.astroleague.org/node/442 wrote:
<<The Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 7049 in the southern sky constellation of Indus. NGC 7049 is the "brightest" of the Indus triplet of galaxies (NGC 7029, 7041, 7049). Bright Cluster Galaxies are among the most massive galaxies in the universe and are also the oldest. They provide astronomers the opportunity of studying the many globulars contained within them. NGC 7049 is hybrid galaxy, it is somewhat like an elliptical and somewhat like spiral. It also unusual in that remarkable dust lanes can be seen swirling about its bright central core. Generally these are seen in much younger galaxies with star forming regions.>>
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A Midsummer Night's Dream > Act II, scene I
TITANIA: His mother was a votaress of my order:
. And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,
. Full often hath she gossip'd by my side,
. And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_(constellation) wrote:
<<The [Indus] constellation was one of twelve created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. The first depiction of this constellation in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. Plancius portrayed the figure as a nude male with arrows in both hands but no bow.
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Epsilon Indi is one of the closest stars to Earth, approximately 11.82 light years away. The system has been discovered to contain a pair of binary brown dwarfs, and has long been a prime candidate in SETI studies.>>
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The Tempest > Act II, scene II
TRINCULO: What have we here?
. a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:
. he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-
. like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-
. John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,
. as once I was, and had but this fish painted,
. not a holiday fool there but would give a piece
. of silver: there would this monster make a
. man; any strange beast there makes a man:
. when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame
. beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead Indian.
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/hubble-scores-a-ring/ wrote:
Hubble Scores a Ring
Written by Anne Minard April 7th, 2009
<<The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of NGC 7049, a mysterious looking galaxy that blurs the boundary between spiral and elliptical galaxies. The image was taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble, which is optimized to hunt for galaxies and galaxy clusters in the remote and ancient Universe, at a time when our cosmos was very young.
NGC 7049 is found in the constellation of Indus, and is the brightest of a cluster of galaxies, a so-called Brightest Cluster Galaxy. They represent some of the oldest and most massive galaxies, and they allow astronomers to study the elusive globular clusters lurking within.
Globular clusters are very dense and compact groupings of a few hundreds of thousands of young stars bound together by gravity. The globular clusters in NGC 7049 are seen as the sprinkling of small faint points of light in the galaxy’s halo. The halo – the ghostly region of diffuse light surrounding the galaxy – comprises myriad individual stars and provides a luminous background to the remarkable swirling ring of dust lanes surrounding NGC 7049’s core. The dust lanes appear as a lacy ring.>>