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V838 Monocerotis
Awesome! Plain and simply awesome. V838 Monocerotis From the Hubble website. Here’s the description of the image: “Starry Night”, Vincent van Gogh‘s famous painting, is renowned for its bold whorls...
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Cosmic Modesty Required
THE UNIVERSE TEACHES AWE AND HUMILITY This is a guest post from an old friend of Learning from Dogs, Patrice Ayme. Patrice writes his own Blog here and this article is published with gratitude and...
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All in the meaning, conclusion
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. It would be so easy to stay with this theme for a very long time,...
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The Goldilocks Planet.
Neither too close nor too far from the Sun. Towards the end of the lecture that Lord Martin Rees gave at University of Melbourne’s Medical School in 2010, he spoke of the way that Planet Earth has...
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Just one in trillions!
The immensity of the universe and what it means for Planet Earth. Jean and I have been watching the astounding BBC Series Wonders of Life presented by Professor Brian Cox. Here’s the BBC trailer: and...
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Not of immediate concern!
Milky Way galaxy heading for a collision – in about 4,000,000,000 years! As with huge numbers of others who come to this blog, the night sky has always been of incredible fascination to me. To...
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Clouds above, and even farther away.
The second, and last, episode of the BBC Clouds Lab programme offers an intriguing message. On Monday, I published a post under the title of The clouds above us. The second episode demonstrated that...
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Think you know our Solar System – Think again!
An incredible discovery about the motion of the sun, and the planets. Serendipity I have turned on my computer. It’s 15:30 on Sunday. My creative juices re Monday’s blog post are not flowing. Why?...
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