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The distances involved even in near space are phenomenally large.
Even traveling at the speed of light. 💫
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Van Gogh's Starry Night with the first image taken by the James Webb telescope by alpgenart (via astronomy_eye)
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Colliding Galaxies in Stephan’s Quintet
Source: apod.nasa.gov
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"In one minute we are seeing planets that used to take us an hour to detect."
This is fascinating.
Source: Mother Jones
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Aurora on the poles of Earth, Saturn, and Jupiter.
Earth photo credit: NASA’s IMAGE satellite.
Saturn and Jupiter photo credit: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope
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NASA’s recent discovery of Kepler-186f, the first habitable Earth-sized planet is big news in humankind’s long search for extraterrestrial life.
A universe full of exoplanets: Thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope, which was launched in 2009 to hunt planets across the universe, we’ve managed to find around 1800 exoplanets so far, many of which have been discovered in just the last year or so.
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They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe. The carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood, all was cooked in the fiery hearts of long-vanished stars.
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I was just a 17-year old kid from the Bronx with dreams of becoming a scientist, and somehow the world’s most famous astronomer found time to invite me to Ithaca in upstate NY and spend a Saturday with him.
I remember that snowy day like it was yesterday. He met me at the bus stop. He showed me his laboratory at Cornell University. Carl reached behind his desk, and inscribed this book (Cosmic Connection) for me:
For Neil Tyson,
With all good wisdom to a future astronomer.
- Carl Sagan
At the end of the day, he drove me back to the bus station. The snow was falling harder. He wrote his phone number, his home phone number, on a scrap of paper. And he said, “If the bus can’t get through, call me. Spend the night at my home, with my family.”
I already knew I wanted to become a scientist, but that afternoon I learned from Carl the kind of person I wanted to become. He reached out to me and to countless others. Inspiring so many of us to study, teach, and do science. Science is a co-operative enterprise, spanning the generations. It’s the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds reaching back from antiquity and forward to the stars.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, in the most inspiring moment of ‘Cosmos’
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