Tag: universe
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via apod.nasa.gov “There are two ways to slide through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both save us from thinking.” – Korzybski http://themodernword.com/
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“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.” – Elizabeth Drew http://themodernword.com/
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via flickr.com “How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.” — W.H. Auden http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/524417.W_H_Auden
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via apod.nasa.gov I’ve always thought people write because they are not living properly. – Tom Stoppard http://themodernword.com/ Methuselah Nebula MWP1 Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman Explanation: The lovely, symmetric planetary nebula cataloged as MWP1 lies some 4,500 light-years away in the northern constellation Cygnus the Swan. One of the largest…
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NGC 346 In The Small Magellanic Cloud – Daily Muse & Astronomy Picture Of The Day – October 17, 2010
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via apod.nasa.gov “To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.” – Walter Benjamin
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“Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.” – Marie de France http://themodernword.com/ The Large Cloud of Magellan Credit & Copyright: John P. Gleason Explanation: The 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern…
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Vista with NGC 2170 Credit & Copyright: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA; Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit Explanation: Drifting through the one-horned constellation Monoceros, these dusty streamers and new born stars are part of the active Monoceros R2 star-forming region, embedded in a giant molecular cloud. The cosmic scene was recorded by the…
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via apod.nasa.gov Clusters, Hartley, and the Heart Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo Explanation: An alluring Comet Hartley 2 cruised through planet Earth’s night sky on October 8, passing within about a Full Moon’s width of the famous double star cluster in Perseus. The much anticipated celestial photo-op was recorded…
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via spacetelescope.org “It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive…
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Cosmic strings are theoretical fault lines in the universe, defective links between different regions of space created in the moments after the Big Bang. And they might be theoretical no longer – distant quasars show the fingerprints of these strings. Compared to cosmic strings, black holes seem downright sensible. These…
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via apod.nasa.gov For as long as there been humans we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe…
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via flickr.com “Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors. We gaze across billions of light-years of space to…
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via flickr.com “It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive…
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Globular Star Cluster NGC 6934 – Carl Sagan On Extraterrestrial Civilizations – APOD: 2010 October 9
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“In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.” – Carl Sagan, Cosmos Episode 12: Encyclopedia Galactica “Explanation: Globular star clusters roam the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy. Gravitationally bound, these spherical groupings of typically several hundred thousand stars are…
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