This is one of the most beautiful and profound things I have read of late
“When we look up, we look for ourselves. Dr. Sagan once said, “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself,” and that could not be more true. We long to understand why we’re here and to find meaning in a world where meaning is so often difficult to divine. Telescopes like this remind us that in spite of our specific challenges on Earth, the possibility of connection still exists.”
Too beautiful and so overwhelmed!
I went to bed seeing a clear sky and an occasional plane heading towards Changi.
I woke up in the middle of the night and saw the moon to my left. That was at 430am
What joy! Immense joy at that!
I went back to bed telling my husband about it. How magical is that?
There’s movement in (seemingly) stillness
And we have moved so much so far along. Why are we still carrying whatever baggage on us?
Drop it already. Whatever —— has passed us by! Drop it drop it drop it!!
We are already in the new. The now.
At 630am when we rose, the moon went further right till I had to bend to see it. But in its place when I saw it at 430am, Mars the red planet was there.
I told huaihao about it and showed him the celestial objects using the app. And he could tell me more. Like Jupiter being super gaseous and has 3 moons and experiences super typhoons. Surprised why he knows and remembers, he says he reads and shows me the book.
So in love with this morning!
So much wisdom in nature! Thank you, give me more 😊
I watch SpaceX launch 2 astronauts in orbit and I feel so moved.
I shared it with qinzhi and HuaiHao, inviting them to watch too. And I asked- how did men ever know where is space? Isn’t space just nearby, why is it also so far away? How do we know the path ahead is where we want to go to or is that direction correct ? Can we just shoot off into the unknown?
Thoughts that came to mind, or why I was touched: mankind’s achievements and how far we have come, because we believed we toiled and most importantly, because we dreamed what we don’t yet know and can’t achieve. We dreamed the impossible. The unknown holds some promise of discovery. The unknown carries with it opportunities for us for betterment so long as we will. The unknown is everything we need to cocreate
You watch it too: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-52863779/spacex-launch-nasa-astronauts-blast-off-to-the-international-space-station
And dream
I find myself getting intrigued, well at least showing more and more interest in news related to space—-as I grow older.
Things that happen in space, the moon’s waxing and waning, becoming full, eclipses, always I try to grasp a fuller understanding of the complexity of it all.
But always I fail.
Its beyond the human mind. And my little brain cannot work it out.
And I read about NASA, opening up its library of photo resources to the public today.
Wow. These are photos that make me wonder child-like again. Like cupping my face with my hands looking up there and go “wah, how can?”
What is happening up there?
I cannot imagine neither can I understand. Even if I read, even if I try to imagine and visualise as I read.
Just don’t get it
Magical things, unfathomable things beyond imagination and comprehension. I sort of like them though.
AND that they are happening whether or not we like it, can understand it.
Bigger than what we can imagine, but happening, The sheer scale of it, baffling—–but possible.
Why?
Simply because this is IT of life.
Life’s myriad of possibilities. I like the idea of possibilities.
That we can but also cannot make sense of it. These occurrences happening in space are the very things that shock us, surprise us, amaze us, push us to discover and learn and actually———they reduce us immediately.
Reduce our ego, our pride our sense of importance. Our theories, our mindsets, our beliefs our hypothesis. They shake up our systems and innerscapes so easily. And reduce our problems and unhappiness —–with their beauty and wonder.
There are like 140000 images, that you can search for here. https://images.nasa.gov
I try my hands and typed “sun”.
Found these images, that are quite different from the sun I see everyday out of the window.
And this one called out to me—where’s the sun?
The sun can look like this too!
And what would be my possibility?
This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has been processed to highlight the edges of each loop to make the structure more clear. A series of loops such as this is known as a flux rope, and these lie at the heart of eruptions on the sun known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs.) This is the first time scientists were able to discern the timing of a flux rope’s formation. (SDO AIA 131 and 171 difference blended image of flux ropes during CME.) Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO —- On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun. Such flares often come with an associated eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME – but this one did not. Something interesting did happen, however. Magnetic field lines in this area of the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, began to twist and kink, generating the hottest solar material – a charged gas called plasma – to trace out the newly-formed slinky shape. The plasma glowed brightly in extreme ultraviolet images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and scientists were able to watch for the first time the very formation of something they had long theorized was at the heart of many eruptive events on the sun: a flux rope. Eight hours later, on July 19, the same region flared again. This time the flux rope’s connection to the sun was severed, and the magnetic fields escaped into space, dragging billions of tons of solar material along for the ride — a classic CME. "Seeing this structure was amazing," says Angelos Vourlidas, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. "It looks exactly like the cartoon sketches theorists have been drawing of flux ropes since the 1970s. It was a series of figure eights lined up to look like a giant slinky on the sun." <b>To read more about this new discovery go to: <a href=”http://1.usa.gov/14UHsTt” rel=”nofollow”>1.usa.gov/14UHsTt<
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