Life this past week has been incredibly hectic. Between final rehearsals for Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the final edits needed
to make The Promise ready for
publication, I haven’t really had a chance to look around at life much. Oh, bad news penetrates the bubble and you
hear about the Israeli-Hamas conflict as well as more fallout from the very
public shoot down of MH17 over the skies of Donetsk
in Ukraine . But not much more outside those things within
the bubble – cast members, family and the book.
But when something pierces that bubble that is beautiful and
good in nature, I like to take time to look at it.
Fifteen years ago, NASA Shuttle OrbiterColumbia
When x-ray images from Chandra are combined with the visible spectrum images of Hubble (another brilliant piece of work that needed corrective lenses, like yours truly); the infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope; and the gamma ray shots from Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, unrivalled mosaic images are made that bring the beauty of deep space down to earth. We can see things that prehistoric and ancient man only dreamed of when he first peered into the blackness of night to take account of the stars above and name them and their constellations.
How absolutely wonderful we live in a time when technology allows us to view the wonders of the universe that are thousands upon thousands of light years away. We are peering into the history of the universe around us to such an extent that now scientists have pinpointed what they believe are some of the earliest galaxies to have formed after the Big Bang – 13.1 billion years into the past and 700 million years after “there was light.”
So, take a little time to stop and “smell the roses” today. Soak in the beauty of Chandra and Friends and remember that there is far more going on around us than what happens in the bubbles of our lives.
Fifteen years ago, NASA Shuttle Orbiter
When x-ray images from Chandra are combined with the visible spectrum images of Hubble (another brilliant piece of work that needed corrective lenses, like yours truly); the infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope; and the gamma ray shots from Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, unrivalled mosaic images are made that bring the beauty of deep space down to earth. We can see things that prehistoric and ancient man only dreamed of when he first peered into the blackness of night to take account of the stars above and name them and their constellations.
How absolutely wonderful we live in a time when technology allows us to view the wonders of the universe that are thousands upon thousands of light years away. We are peering into the history of the universe around us to such an extent that now scientists have pinpointed what they believe are some of the earliest galaxies to have formed after the Big Bang – 13.1 billion years into the past and 700 million years after “there was light.”
So, take a little time to stop and “smell the roses” today. Soak in the beauty of Chandra and Friends and remember that there is far more going on around us than what happens in the bubbles of our lives.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/chandra-x-ray-observatory-turns-15
http://www.space.com/23306-ancient-galaxy-farthest-ever-seen.html
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