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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Friday, March 16, 2012

Moon, like never seen before

Great to be back to write about one of the most photographed object in the night sky... our good old Moon. This video that I saw on space.com is stunning.. so stunning that I HAD to post it..

Staring at the moon for hours together when I was a kid..beautiful! Looking through my telescope at the craters and the shadow formations, imagining the mountains..awesome! But nothing matches what you will see in this video. The more I look at this video.. the more I want to look at it. Okay, enough said, have at it...
 Now here is the best part.. This is no Artists imagination... its all real, up close videos and images taken by Nasa's LRO. Be on the look out for more of these, astro enthusiasts.

Courtesy: Space.com

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