http://hubblesite.org/gallery/
Here’s something to consider – this is the `Bug Nebula” and the bright object in the centre is a dying star. It’s just one of the many amazing images from the Hubble Site, where photos taken by the Eye in the Sky are stored for public viewing.
have you ever really seen the night sky? I don’t mean a full moon and the handful of stars you see from the typical suburb. I mean a sky blazing with millions of stars, such as you see in the desert on on a mountain top. It’s a sad fact that many people today have no idea what the night sky really holds – `light pollution’, the bane of astronomers, hides the real brilliance of the night sky. No wonder we don’t feel like citizens of the universe anymore, and have lost touch with out own sense of wonder.
If you can’t make it out into the desert, visit Hubble instead. Download some of the images for your desktop. We need reminding that we are infinitessimally small in the grand scheme of things, and we need to be reminded that there are wonders out there we cannot even imagine…
