The stars were thinning out; the glare of the Milky Way was dimming into a pale ghost of the glory he had known — and, when he was ready, would know again. He was back, precisely where he wished to be, in the space that men called real.
The Universe has been around long before my blog post in June of 2015. But the images, the inspiration, the vastness of possibilities has always and will always exist.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff”. Carl Sagan.
Cone Nebula
Hercules Globular Cluster
Ghost Nebula
Whirlpool Galaxy
Mystic Mountain, Carina Nebula
Centaurus A
Saturn
These and other beauties can be found in my Gallery, or at the mother of all space image sites, HubbleSite.