A Quote by Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain



Telescopes are in some ways like time machines...
They reveal galaxies so far away that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. We in astronomy have an advantage in studying the universe, in that we can actually see the past. We owe our existence to stars, because they make the atoms of which we are formed. So if you are romantic you can say we are literally starstuff. If you're less romantic you can say we're the nuclear waste from the fuel that makes stars shine. We've made so many advances in our understanding. A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our Earth, and the layout of the continents. We are now just learning the dimensions and ingredients of our entire cosmoc, and can at last make some sense of our cosmic habitat.



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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Discovery docked to ISS

Discovery successfully launched, headed its way to the International Space Station (ISS) and now it has successfully docked to it and delivered the final truss segment and pair of U.S. solar arrays and a new crew member to take up residence aboard the growing orbital scientific complex at 5:20 PM EDT today. Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata will now be the official resident aboard the growing orbital scientific complex.
Prime business for the crews Wednesday will be to lift the truss segment out of Discovery’s payload bay with the shuttle robot arm and hand it off to the station’s mechanical arm for an overnight stay before Thursday’s permanent installation on the station.
Courtesy: nasa.gov

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