Saturn’s Hexagonal Polar Storm
Posted in Astronomy at 12:00 on 6 February 2014
This sequence appeared on The Daily Galaxy on Tuesday 4/2/14.
Tags: Astronomy, Saturn, The Daily Galaxy
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Posted in Astronomy at 12:00 on 6 February 2014
This sequence appeared on The Daily Galaxy on Tuesday 4/2/14.
Tags: Astronomy, Saturn, The Daily Galaxy
Denis Cullinan
6 February 2014 at 21:44
Holy Cow. Outer space is one mighty strange place. Here’s a picture of a gamma-ray plume, one million light-years long, being emitted from a particularly unfriendly black hole at the center of a galaxy twelve million light-years distant from the Earth.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/05/the-gamma-ray-galaxy-a-unique-object-emitting-plumes-a-million-light-years-long.html
As Blaise Pascal, the famous French scientist-man and quotation-monger, said, “Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie.” My French is not so hot. First let me translate into more fluid, colloquial French: “Sainte vache! Quelle gros morceaux de bugger-all! Je suis effrayé sans-merde!” TRANS: Holy cow! What huge hunks of nothing! I’m scared s**tless!” That man had a real way with words.
jackdeighton
7 February 2014 at 23:28
Yes Denis,
These space photos are fantastic stuff.
As to Pascal that, “silence éternel m’effraie,” reminds me of Dunbar’s “Lament for the Makars” with its recurring, “timor mortis conturbat me.” (“Fear of death disturbs me.”)