NASA’s picture of the day from yesterday hammers home the fact that we are very small—and living in a very big universe.

The photo, is of a small (10° × 7°) section of the night sky, looking at the crowded star fields toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. APOD: 2006 June 23 – [...]

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Posted at 12:20 on Saturday 24th June 2006 in Blog, Science tagged , , , , with no comments.

Astounding is the word that comes to mind when viewing this short animation of the impact. As an animated picture is probably worth more than a thousand words, I don’t feel I need write anything else.

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Posted at 22:28 on Monday 4th July 2005 in Blog tagged , , , , with no comments.