Sentinel
Sentinel
Windows notch a thick rock wall in the remains of the mission church at Quarai under the eye of swirling gas and dust in a star-forming galaxy.
Clusters of new stars are forming as clouds of glowing gas are thrown out by active young suns some 13 million light years from Earth. NASA
=s Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 4214 bubbling with torrid winds and radiation, expanding and producing new stars as the older ones explode in supernova. Multiple exposures with several color filters produced this array of star formation. (GRIN Data Base: GPN-2000-000877. Also credit Hubble Heritage Team, STScI, Johns Hopkins U., Carnegie Mellon U.)Early missions were built by Franciscans accompanying Spanish troops into central New Mexico in the 1600's. Using Indian labor and local materials, the Europeans built simple single-nave churches and other buildings to shelter their religious services, house the clergy, and provide village living quarters. This far-flung mission was too remote and was abandoned before 1680.
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