“The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.” -Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison
Although, for many various reasons, most of us may find the prospect of journeying into deep space beyond our physical grasp, that doesn't means we can't journey there in our imaginations. Have a listen to Catie Curtis sing her fanciful, escapist song,
while you consider some of the greatest images ever taken of deep space.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ.Potsdam/L.Oskinova et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
And then consider what it would be like to fall asleep surrounded by them every night!
Image credit: Anyle at http://www.amazon.com/Anlye-Galaxy-Sheets-Bedding-Matching/dp/B00KEMP84….
It's your chance to sleep among the greatest stars and nebulae we've ever seen!
- Log in to post comments
More like this
"A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth." -Ernst Mach
Our Sun, like all Sun-like stars, will come to the end of its life someday. All the hydrogen fuel in its core…
"For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough." -Robert Kiyosaki
Do supermassive black holes form from the merger and growth of many smaller black holes, falling towards a cluster/galactic center where they find one another and grow into a…
“Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search there above for the themes of our lives, for those frigid sympathies that participate in our achievements as well as our blunderings.” -Marguerite Yourcenar
Galaxies…
"On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise." -Paul Ricoeur
When it comes to the largest bound cosmic structures, it doesn’t get any bigger than galaxy clusters. Unless, that it, you consider…