The night skies were alive tonight in Glacier National Park, where one of my 20 sec exposure shots of the silhouetted mountains captured thousands of stars, the Milky Way and at least 5 shooting stars.
The sun lit the skies this afternoon at Glacier National Park:
What caused the universe? "God" is not an answer for me because this mysterious "God" seems entirely made up and "He" creates many new answerless questions. So "He" is not an explanation.
Back to the question. What caused the universe? Why is there something rather than nothing. I generally conclude "I don't know." But then Roger Penrose comes along . . .
"There was something before the Big Bang and that something is what we will have in our future," he said, according to The Telegraph.He added, "We have a universe that expands and expands, and all mass decays away, and in this crazy theory of mine, that remote future becomes the Big Bang of another aeon."
The Perseverance Mars Landing was such an incredible feel good moment. Now we have access to several camera angles so we can see how it really looked. It's so good to be reminded that there are so many intelligent highly focused scientists and engineers out there who can inspire us with their painstaking work.
"The sage as astronomer.— As long as you still experience the stars as something “above you” you lack the eye of knowledge."
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, # 71.
NGC 4676 (the Mice Galaxies) are two spiral galaxies about 290 million light-years away. They are in the process of colliding and merging.
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This photograph was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2002. The size of this combined galaxy is 760,000 light years across. In the background of the Mice Galaxies, there are at least 3300 galaxies, at distances up to 13 billion light-years.