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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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Bitter Sweet

Bitter Sweet - A term that is being used now a days to descride the current mind-set @ NASA.

After 30 years of spaceflights and more than 130 missions ISS is finally complete. NASA's space shuttle fleet will retire and be on display at institutions across the country to inspire the next generation of explorers and engineers. I am a Californian and its certainly a great news that Endeavour, that will be on its way back to Earth very soon, will be housed here in LA. All mixed feelings...I guess m getting into a bitter sweet mode myself.

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