Several weeks ago, Roger and I were lucky enough to be part of a group that visited the The Rothney Astrophysical Observatory which is the principal astrophysical teaching and research facility of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Calgary. It is situated south of Calgary, and was completed in 1972.
One of the speakers that we heard talked about his specialty, the way a star dies. In his discussion, he talked about nebulas, neutron stars, and black holes. I now find that I go looking for interesting pictures of stars, planets, and all related discoveries, like the picture below.
The Eagle Nebula is a billowing tower of gas and dust that rises up from a heavenly nursery. This small piece of the Eagle Nebula is 57 trillion miles long!
From the site hauntinglybeautifulhubbleimages.blogspot.com
The night at the observatory was quite magical as you can see from the rainbows that seem to end over the large telescope building.
Picture by Judy Hirst, September 2010 of Rothenay Observatory large telescope building
The Angels say that by looking upwards, we can understand that most of what we do everyday is very insignificant in the way the Universe works. Stars and planets and galaxies are born, live, and die, as humans do. What makes humans so special, is that by living love, and directing love to what ever they are looking at, or that they are with, the human enhances the object. As scientists have observed, whenever attention is focused on “something”, the nature of the “something” is changed.
I think that perhaps it is not the object that is changed, but we who are changed simply by gazing at an object, like the Moon or the Sun or a nebula.
I wish you many happy moments of gazing at objects.
Roger and I were lucky enough to be part of a group that visited the The Rothney Astrophysical Observatory which is the principal astrophysical teaching and research facility of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Calgary. angel courses
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