Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women -- Rising Stars

Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an innocuous pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) - so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conical shape - this giant pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region. ACS made this observation on April 2, 2002. Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (USCS/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA

I wonder what kind of paper they print lottery tickets on. It can't be very expensive. Funny how it holds a crease, though, especially when I've held it in my slightly sweaty hand all the way from the newsstand to the train station instead of tucking it into my purse.

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