The beat of the solar system
Whimsical. Charming. The "beat" of the solar system. Two times around per tone for speedy Mercury.
Whimsical. Charming. The "beat" of the solar system. Two times around per tone for speedy Mercury.
As reported by CNET UK:
A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had traveled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.
You owe it to yourself to view these ten spectacular images, all but one of them taken by the Hubble telescope. This series of images was featured in Discover Magazine. I find myself imagining what Galileo himself would have said if he had been able to see these images. Or how Edwin Hubble (1889 – 1953) would have reacted. These are truly billion dollar pictures. Below, the Spindle Galaxy:
Here you'll see and hear a beautiful Hawaiian evening sky to go with beautiful music. Such a spectacular way end a long day! Strongly consider watching this short video in HD: The vivid fluidity of the star-filled sky in this video is something I'd never before viewed. There is an ocean of stars up there, including the vast edge of the Milky Way galaxy itself. Watching the "movement" of those stars allowed me to feel, like never before, that our own orb is moving through space. I've long known, intellectually, that the Earth is spinning and rotating through space, but this time-lapse video really brings that point home. We are moving too, in a dramatic way, every second of every day. We aren't the stable platform from which one can objectively view the rest of existence. This video seemingly pushed me to an Archimedean point. Bravo!
Neil Tyson is optimistic about society's reception to science and technology. And the children who are our future are not the problem. It's the adults.