This is cool:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo.html
Apparently, after a star explodes, it leaves behind a core. In this case, the remaining particles have a created a cosmic hand that is twelve miles wide, 1,700 years old and 17,000 light years away from Earth. Let your imagination run with that for a while. I've become interested in space pictures lately, they give me a sense of inconsequentiality. The photos never give justice to the sheer magnitude of their images, which is why a running imagination is necessary. Compare that vastness to what we think is vast on Earth (the Grand Canyon, skyscrapers, thunder, etc.). Then compare it to things that get us all worked up. Then compare it to the small stuff that we unfortunately sweat all too often. Then to the bug on your ceiling. Then to the cells that make up the bug, the proteins that make up the cell, the amino acids that make up the proteins (that's the hierarchy I think...). Now back to our cosmic hand that's twelve miles wide and 17,000 light years away. And the universe that contains it! And what's beyond that?!
Cool.
The beauty in it, if you can break down something as small as a bug you should be able to look at the beauty in it, yeah? You do not even need to understand any of it in complexity, if you can identify what makes it, it is beautiful, yeah?
ReplyDeleteThis totally made my night, to have some one look at something like a cosmic hand print and then look at something like a bug. Awesome!