Drone » astronomy http://www.toobrown.com ramblings of an artistic soul Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:59:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Drink # 6 http://www.toobrown.com/2009/10/15/drink-6/ http://www.toobrown.com/2009/10/15/drink-6/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:16:48 +0000 toobrown http://www.toobrown.com/?p=90

And then, the world ceased to exist. Our solar system collapsed under its own weight. The sun was but a dying white dwarf. The Milky Way, like all other galaxies continued to travel through space towards that ever elusive super galaxy. Space kept expanding. Ever. Forever. What was the universe heading toward? Has this all happened before? Are we merely an insignificant anomaly in an unremarkable iteration of spacetime?

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My Celestron Powerseeker telescope

Galileo peered into the heavens and saw the lunar surface for the first time in 1610. I admit I discovered the joy of interstellar observation very late. But, I am glad I did — sooner than later — and it all came to me in one fell swoop — the grand beauty of the cosmos, the smallness of our existence, the vulnerability of our being and the crowded loneliness of the experience that is human life.

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