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Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all...

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The Start of Cassini’s Grand Finale

Cue drumroll…

For the first time ever, our Cassini spacecraft dove through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings on April 26. At 5 a.m. EDT, Cassini crossed the ring plane with its science instruments turned on and collecting data. 

During this dive, the spacecraft was not in contact with Earth. The first opportunity to regain contact with the spacecraft is expected around 3 a.m. EDT on April 27.

This area between Saturn and its rings has never been explored by a spacecraft before. What we learn from these daring final orbits will further our understanding of how giant planets, and planetary systems everywhere, form and evolve.

So, you might be asking…how did this spacecraft maneuver its orbit between Saturn and its rings? Well…let us explain!

On April 22, Cassini made its 127th and final close approach to Saturn’s moon Titan. The flyby put the spacecraft on course for its dramatic last act, known as the Grand Finale. 

As the spacecraft passed over Titan, the moon’s gravity bent its path, reshaping the robotic probe’s orbit slightly so that instead of passing just outside Saturn’s main rings, Cassini would begin a series of 22 dives between the rings and the planet.

With this assist, Cassini received a large increase in velocity of approximately 1,925 mph with respect to Saturn.

This final chapter of exploration and discovery is in many ways like a brand-new mission. Twenty-two times, the Cassini spacecraft will dive through the unexplored space between Saturn and its rings. What we learn from these ultra-close passes over the planet could be some of the most exciting revelations ever returned by the long-lived spacecraft.

Throughout these daring maneuvers, updates will be posted on social media at:

@CassiniSaturn on Twitter @NASAJPL on Twitter

Updates will also be available online at: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grand-finale/milestones/ 

Follow along with us during this mission’s Grand Finale!

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According to NASA, a neighboring star has 7 Earth-like planets in its orbit

Seven Earth-like planets have been found orbiting a sun not too far — in space terms, at least — from our own.

NASA announced Wednesday that the planets resemble Earth in composition and spacing from their star, which means their conditions might be favorable to liquid water and life, Time reported.

“The planets form a very compact system,” Michaël Gillon of Belgium’s University of Liège, said in a teleconference, according to Time. “They are very close to their star and are reminiscent of the system of moons that orbit Jupiter. They could have liquid water and life.”

Astronomers studied the star, Trappist-1 — which, at 39 light years away from Earth, is considered a relative neighbor — for six years, using telescopes located all over the world, plus the Spitzer Space Telescope. Read more (2/22/17 2:04 PM)

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ESOcast 95 Light: How Big is a Star? (4K UHD)

It’s hard to comprehend the sheer size of objects in space , but let’s give it a try!

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INFINITE UNIVERSE

“If I arrived at the outermost edge of the heaven, could I extend my hand into what is outside or not? It would be paradoxical not to be able to extend it.” The end of the staff, once extended will mark a new limit. Archytas can advance to the new limit and ask the same question again, so that there will always be something, into which his staff can be extended, beyond the supposed limit, and hence that something is clearly unlimited.

Se mi trovassi all'ultimo cielo, cioè a quello delle stelle fisse, potrei stendere la mano o la bacchetta al di là di quello, o no? Ch'io non possa, è assurdo; ma se la stendo, allora esisterà un di fuori, sia corpo sia spazio (non fa differenza, come vedremo). Sempre dunque si procederà allo stesso modo verso il termine di volta in volta raggiunto, ripetendo la stessa domanda; e se sempre vi sarà altro a cui possa tendersi la bacchetta, è chiaro che anche sarà interminato. 

TEXT: Archita in un passo di Eudemo da Rodi nel suo commento alla Fisica di Aristotele (Francesco Paolo De Ceglia, Università di Bari. Seminario di storia della scienza,Scienziati di Puglia: secoli V a.C.-XXI, Parte 3, Adda, 2007 p.18)

IMG: Giordano Bruno escaping the old world view of a stationary earth at the center of the Universe

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Human Population Through Time

It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer ba...

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La verità è la libertà dell’anima. Siamo molto giovani, in un Universo giovane. Le nostre menti vivono ancora nelle caverne, e spesso sbagliamo, commettiamo azioni che ci disonorano. Combattiamo, mentre dovremmo danzare. Sfidiamo, imbrogliamo e bistrattiamo la natura innocente.

Tuttavia non è la nostra vera indole, è soltanto il nostro modo di agire nel mondo che ci siamo costruiti. In ogni istante della nostra vita siamo liberi di cambiare ciò che facciamo e il mondo che abbiamo creato.

In tutte le cose che contano veramente siamo Uno. Amore e fede, fiducia ed empatia, famiglia e amicizia, tramonti e canzoni di meraviglia: in ogni speranza nutrita dalla nostra umanità siamo Uno. Il genere umano, in questo momento del nostro destino, è un bambino che soffia su un dente di leone, senza preoccuparsi, senza capire. Eppure la meraviglia di un bambino è la meraviglia che è in tutti noi, e non esiste limite a ciò che possiamo fare quando i cuori umani si connettono. È la nostra verità. È la nostra storia. È il significato della parola Dio: siamo Uno. Siamo Uno. Siamo Uno. 

(L’ombra della Montagna - Gregory David Roberts)

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SHIVA NATARAJA शिव Le cinque attività cosmiche di Śiva: * creazione (il tamburo e il suono primordiale, l'Oṃ), * conservazione (la mano che dà speranza), * distruzione (il fuoco, nel senso anche di evoluzione), * illusione (il piede sul suolo), * liberazione (il piede sollevato). La simbologia è quindi quella dell'eterno mutamento della natura, dell'universo manifesto, che attraverso la danza Śiva equilibra con armonia, determinando la nascita, il moto e la morte di ogni cosa. L'universo viene manifestato, preservato e infine riassorbito.

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See a Stunning New View of the Milky Way

Astronomers stitched together more than 700 maps to create the most detailed image ever of our galaxy from the Southern Hemisphere.

The most detailed image of our galaxy, ever.

Scientists stitched together the enormous image from more than 700 observations by the APEX telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert. It reveals finer details of the galaxy than seen in earlier images, including most of the places where new stars are born—such as the mysterious Galactic Center—and cold regions where dust and gas hover mere fractions of a degree above absolute zero.

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This film follows the ancient cycle of sunset, to night, to sunrise. A continuous loop of perpetual movement that has been unbroken since the dawn of time, and the only true constant in our lives.

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"Innamorarsi è facile. Quando provi certe cose, sei così felice da non vedere più nulla. Ma, finita la luna di miele, la realtà inizia a farsi avanti. Questo è il punto, sei tu a decidere che realtà vuoi. Un consulente molto saggio ci disse che l'amore non è un sentimento, ma una decisione. Si decide di amare e di restare innamorati.

I sentimenti sono mutevoli, ma quando decidi ogni giorno di rispettare la promessa, stai scegliendo l'amore. Quando pensi che preferiresti morire piuttosto che tradire la persona che hai accanto, stai decidendo di amare.

Ci sarà sempre un'altra persona attraente a tentarci. L'erba del vicino sembrerà sempre più verde, soprattutto nei momenti più difficili, ma il vero amore non conosce le tentazioni. Se siete separati, mi auguro che continuiate a sperare. Se qualcun altro vi ha sedotto, spero abbiate scelto l'amore e non l'attrazione fisica. Se la vostra vita insieme è appena iniziata, scegliete di amarvi in ogni singolo minuto che vi è stato concesso.

La vita è breve e il tempo è l'unica cosa che non potremo mai riavere. Potete arrivare alla fine dei vostri giorni rimpiangendo l'amore oppure felici delle vostre decisioni."

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Every human heartbeat is a universe of possibilities

Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts @elenacuboni finito!!! 😍😍😍 Non 45 anni, ma un anno e mezzo - tempo di un matrimonio, un cane, un figlio e tanto altro ancora...! Ti amo 💖

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This is What the Universe Looks Like in One Image

Try to imagine  planet Earth within the scope of the entire universe. It is rather hard to imagine; however, fortunately, you don’t have to imagine it. Now, the advances in science and technology allow us to picture such a scene in its entirety.

Using logarithmic maps of the universe from Princeton and images from NASA, Pablo Carlos Budassi created an image that shows the observable universe in one disc.

The image is a solar system centric view of our universe. This essentially means that our Sun and Solar System are at the very center of the image. They are followed by the outer ring of our Milky Way galaxy, the Perseus arm (one of two major spiral arms of the Milky Way), a ring of other nearby galaxies like Andromeda, the rest of the cosmic web, cosmic microwave background radiation leftover from the big bang, and finally a ring of plasma that was also generated by the big bang. This illustration is rather handy because, in short, logarithms allow us to comprehend large values.

Instead of showing all parts of the universe on a linear scale, each chunk of the disc represents a field of view several orders of magnitude larger than the one before it. That’s why the entire observable universe can fit inside the circle.

And we need this, because the universe is very large. Roughly 13.75 billion years ago, our universe came into existence. Very shortly thereafter, primordial light started shooting across the cosmos and spreading throughout the cosmos. Since its inception, the cosmos has been growing at an ever increasing rate. Cosmologists estimate that the oldest photons that we can observe have traveled a distance of 45-47 billion light years since the big bang. That means that our observable universe is some 93 billion light-years wide (give or take a few light years).

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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft’s vantage point in orbit around the moon.

“The image is simply stunning,” said Noah Petro, Deputy Project Scientist for LRO at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “The image of the Earth evokes the famous ‘Blue Marble’ image taken by Astronaut Harrison Schmitt during Apollo 17, 43 years ago, which also showed Africa prominently in the picture.”

In this composite image we see Earth appear to rise over the lunar horizon from the viewpoint of the spacecraft, with the center of the Earth just off the coast of Liberia (at 4.04 degrees North, 12.44 degrees West). The large tan area in the upper right is the Sahara Desert, and just beyond is Saudi Arabia. The Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America are visible to the left. On the moon, we get a glimpse of the crater Compton, which is located just beyond the eastern limb of the moon, on the lunar farside.

Speechless Beauty !!

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Earthrise filmed during the Apollo 10 mission, 1969.

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My Body, My Temple - Autumn Skye Morrison

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