Welcome to The Remnant

Welcome to me new home of random thoughts and other stuff that does not have to do with geology. The official title of the blog will be "The Remnant of Dino Jim's Thoughts" but that will quickly be shortened down to just "The Remnant...". Hopefully I will spruce this up a little in the coming weeks. But sit back and enjoy.

The image is of a supernova remnant and can be found over at the Smithsonian Flickr page. The title reads:

"Chandra's X-ray image of the supernova remnant DEM L71 revealed a ten million-degree hot inner cloud (aqua) of glowing iron and silicon surrounded by an outer ring of 5 million-degree gas. An analysis of the Chandra data identified the inner cloud as the remains of a white dwarf star that exploded. The white dwarf pulled matter"