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Recycling Cassiopeia A
Massive stars in the Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives for billions of years. They collapse from cosmic clouds, ignite nuclear furnaces, and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space, restarting star formation. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle.
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In tropical astrology, 12 JUL 2002 falls under Cancer (♋). The sign's window runs from 06-21 through 07-22. Cancer is marked by the Beehive Cluster, M44, a loose family of stars visible to the naked eye on a dark night. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 12 JUL 2002.