Mother of stars

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
Official comment: An eerie pillar of star birth in the Carina Nebula rises from a sea of greenish-colored clouds. More can be viewed here
From Jan: The Hubble Telescope shows us an object containing stars, gas and dust in which new stars are being born. How we [...]

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Ancient secrets

Hello, well I’m in a bit of a philosophical mood this early afternoon. The coffee was reviving and the cheese sandwiches all you could wish from sandwiches with cheese inside – even the sharp tang. I’ll skip over lunch as breakfast was rather late due to a lingering hangover from Saturday night [...]

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Eternal One

Tick – a century is gone Tock – there goes another one Ten thousand years are as a sigh To fires that burn in nighttime sky And those that swirl and hold us all Perhaps the oldest in that hall [...]

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Earth moves

"Seeing is believing." "Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe."
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“Visual confirmation of a hypothesis must produce faith in it, but faith and comprehension are far from being the same thing. However, where comprehension is unattainable, faith and respectful attention will not be despised.”
John Leuthold – The Tides and The Continent – Making [...]

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Origins

One essence pervades that’s the fountain of all Born in an instant that none can recall Weaver of patterns that holds in its hands Infinite wisdom inscribed in the sands
The cycles of change never stopping to stare Define its purpose you who that would dare [...]

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Photon

Imp of delight chasing the night Hiding your play from man’s insight There in your latticed secret lair Where mirrors lurk behind the glare
All that there is, is what you are From smallest mote to giant star Vast galaxies and life’s begin [...]

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Eye in the sky

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/The SINGS Team (SSC/Caltech)

Isn’t this an amazing picture from the Spitzer telescope? I add the official interpretation for your perusal. Of course, that explanation involves a black hole which is still just speculation even though the authorities would have us believe otherwise. I would like to think that at the centre of this and [...]

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Triangle

NGC 6791. The full Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys field is full of stars estimated to be 8 billion years old. Two background galaxies can be seen at upper left.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Bedin (STScI)
 
Oh little star, so near, so far, you shine for all to see. [...]

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Universal contact

A million light years of pure darkness Then a glow spreads through the night Timeless moment of creation Raw intelligence in flight.
An eye that opens to the starlight Far away in time and space Sees the galaxies and gas [...]

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Cosmological fireworks

Well, although it doesn’t concern me a great deal, not any more, it will be interesting to see what develops in cosmological circles as results from the newest space probes, Herschel and Hubble (refurbished) and Planck, are returned to Earth from later this year. Their observations could at last provide and answer to [...]

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