This new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) shows the unique galaxy pair called NGC 3314. Through an extraordinary chance alignment, a face-on spiral galaxy lies precisely in front of another larger spiral. This line-up provides us with the rare chance to visualize dark material within the front galaxy, seen only because it is silhouetted against the object behind it. Dust lying in the spiral arms of the foreground galaxy stands out where it absorbs light from the more distant galaxy. This silhouetting shows us where the interstellar dust clouds are located, and how much light they absorb. The outer spiral arms of the front galaxy appear to change from bright to dark, as they are projected first against deep space, and then against the bright background of the other galaxy. NGC 3314 lies about 140 million light-years from Earth, in the direction of the southern hemisphere constellation Hydra. The bright blue stars forming a pinwheel shape near the center of the front galaxy have formed recently from interstellar gas and dust. A small, red patch near the center of the image is the bright nucleus of the background galaxy, NGC 3314b. It is reddened for the same reason the setting sun looks red. When light passes through a volume containing small particles (molecules in the Earth's atmosphere or interstellar dust particles in galaxies), its color becomes redder. The Hubble Heritage color image of NGC 3314 was constructed from archival images taken with WFPC2 in April 1999 by Drs. William Keel and Ray White III (University of Alabama) in blue and infrared light, combined with new images obtained by the Heritage team in March 2000 using blue, green and red filters.

Focus To Get More Paid Speaking Gigs

February 28, 2016 joeghostwriter

A new speaker asked how to move from free to paid speaking gigs. One of the common errors of new speakers is they cast too wide a net. My educated guess is he does not have a focused value proposition.

Ask yourself “what problem do I solve?” The answer to that must be crystal clear to the people you approach about speaking gigs. The best way to do that is to narrow your target market.

That said, few new speakers and businesses want to do this, thinking they are giving up potential business by focusing so tightly on a narrow audience.

“My message is for everbody!” they cry. “I want to help the world!”

Great, but you have to establish a beachhead in a target market, then expand from there.

The truth is most (not all) niches have tons of speaking opportunities around the world. But unless you focus, you’ll struggle to get any traction, testimonials, referrals and paid bookings.

Joe Ghostwriter

Focus To Get More Paid Speaking Gigs

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