Astronomy

You are looking at the birth of new stars! The Orion Nebula is what astronomers call a “stellar nursery”.

My irrepressible fascination with scale and the the enormity of the universe led me to find this wonderful map made by Andrew Colvin. It shows a mere 150 million light-year-wide slice of the entire universe, which extends 13 billion light years wide. I’ve taken Andrew’s map apart, section by section, to give you a view [...]

Deep inside the Trifid Nebula. A spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

I invite you to an experience, a one minute experience of awe and wonder an attempt to take in — to grok — the incredibly amazing immense enormity of the universe. Nothing short of mind blowing, unless you don’t care. But if you do care, if you’re curious, follow me, … deep into deep space… [...]

Within the atom the electrons revolve about the central proton with about the same comparative room the planets have as they revolve about the sun in the space of our solar system.