Eyedea

Stars in the sky that have long since cleared Even if they've been gone for billions of years We are still able to see the light that they shine And the eyedea... still lives on A star begins as a collapsing cloud of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. Once the stellar core is sufficiently dense, hydrogen becomes steadily converted into helium through nuclear fusion, releasing energy in the process. The star then evolves into a degenerate form, recycling a portion of its matter into the interstellar environment, where it will form a new generation of stars with a higher proportion of heavy elements. Older, population II stars have substantially less metallicity than the younger, population I stars due to the composition of the molecular clouds from which they formed. Over time these clouds become increasingly enriched in heavier elements as older stars die and shed portions of their atmospheres. All stars spend the majority of their lives as main sequence stars, fueled primarily by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium in the core of the star. However, stars of different masses have markedly different properties at various stages of their lives. The ultimate fate of more massive stars is different from that of less massive stars, as is their luminosity and impact on their environment throughout their lives. These stars undergo carbon fusion, with their lives ending in a core-collapse supernova explosion. The core then becomes a stellar remnant. "The core of our spirit is naked The form of its lyrics are sacred Blanketed by the original sound of the inner vibrations I'm floating on the soft clouds of positive creation" -Micheal "Eyedea" Larsen Pictor is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky (declination −50° to −60°), located between the brilliant star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its name is Latin for painter, but it is in fact an abbreviation of its original name Equuleus Pictoris, the 'painter's easel', and it is normally represented as an easel. It was invented and named by Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century. Pictor has attracted attention in recent years because of its second-brightest star Beta Pictoris, 63.4 light-years distant, which is surrounded by an unusual dust disk rich in carbon, as well as an extrasolar planet. Another four stars have been found to have extrasolar planets. The constellation also hosts RR Pictoris, a nova which brightened to magnitude 1.2 in 1925. "In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist’s signature." -Carl Sagan

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