The Cosmos Recycles, Why Don't We?

Via CNN Space & Science this morning, scientists using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Telescope have observed a Red Giant hurtling through our Milky Way on a path to its own destruction...

Never fear, its recycling itself.

This never before observed occurrence of a dying star with a debris tail spanning 13 light years can teach us a lot on how to care for our own planet.

You see, as Mira (the Red Giant--which is a dying star--of focus) breaks apart, stars, planets, and maybe even life will form from it's dust, particles, and debris.

"'It [Mira] is giving us this fantastic insight into the death processes of stars and their renewals -- their phoenix-like revivals as their ashes get cycled backed into the next generation of stars,' added Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University in New York."

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