Fluid space

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!

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What’s up?

I mean, truly, what's up? How about this incredible NASA photo of the Milky Way taken by the Spitzer infrared telescope. We live in quite an amazing neighborhood. Image: NASA But there are other things that are up closer to home. I caught both of these images yesterday. First of all, a sky-full of clouds, as a storm was gathering . . . Image by Erich Vieth . . . which ended up with this rainbow, right over my house. A sign of good luck, assume . . . Image by Erich Vieth

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