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Long-time visitors know my fascination with images of deep space – such as those from the Hubble Telescope. After all, I use them as headers here. (Click here for past headers or click the Past Headers tab for my page dedicated to past headers.)
The magical and mystical nature of deep space image give me a special sense of the grand nature of creation – the universe we live in.
The Friday morning news featured a clip of a video from the Hubble Telescope team. I immediately knew I had to use it here. It is an animated fly-through of the Orion Nebula – a place featured in multiple headers. The video is a worthy 3 minutes and I recommend viewing it on full screen. Enjoy.
Addition (10:15 AM): For some, the video promotes reflection. If so, please share in your comment.
A Frank Angle 
It’s amazing that we can see these sights.
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Merril,
Oh yes … simply amazing!
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What a great 3:04 minutes in my life!
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Tim,
Glad you appreciated this wonderful journey.
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Very nice. As I watched, I was thinking about how knowledge of astronomy has changed in such a short period. Edwin Hubble sparked understanding of the nature of space around 1924, showing that it was expanding and that our galaxy was but one of countless others. Now we know the age of the universe, that many galaxies (perhaps all) have a massive black hole at their centers, and that the very nature of space is understandable and predictable, even its inevitable end.
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Jim,
Very good addition about Edwin Hubble and knowledge. This video is a good one for reflection, which would be different for everyone. Wish I would have added that point in the text – heck, I still may. 🙂
BTW – The other day I was working on a post on something you requested (I’ll guess) 3 years ago. Will try to give you the heads-up before it is published.
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PS: I just looked it up … my first draft was August 2014.
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Thank you for posting that. So beautiful and amazing.
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Wendy,
You are welcome … and thanks for watching. So beautiful, yet so relatively so far away.
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Very beautiful. Lovely music as well. While watching it, I couldn’t help thinking about livable planets. What would it be like to live on a planet in that area. When you rotated you would sometimes have the cloud as sky scenery…….. What would that be like…. growing up with that, and taking it for granted. You might use it as a time indicator of some type…… “We will meet during the hours of the sky valley….”
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Emarie,
Glad you enjoyed the video … and many thanks for your reflection. Thinking of other livable planets in the universe can be overwhelming, but I tend to think those places exist.
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Lovely time to reflect, Frank. I could not help thinking about the vastness of the universe and the probabilities that life on Earth is the only life in that vastness are small indeed. Makes one wonder even more of the meaning of all of this. If Earth is the only life then what a spectacular stage on which to live. Thanks, Frank.
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John,
The vastness of it all is amazing. Simply too much to imagine. You reminded me of my favorite video, which I have used here on multiple occasions … but I just learned it was taken done … such a shame … so this one will have to do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAteAz3WQ0
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Amazing video, Frank. Thanks
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Thanks for this video! It is truly marvelous, stupendous, out of this world. (sorry).
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Patti,
Given that I don’t like to overwhelm a reader with too many images, it was important that I find a video to help with my message. Glad it worked … and thanks for taking the time to watch it!
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So amazing.
Looking forward to Iceland news. That’s bound to be an adventure.
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Betsy,
Yes – this is an amazing journey. Simply a stunning view of a portion of the universe that I can’t imagine.
Regarding Iceland, you should see the two posts previous to this one … spectacular!!!! Then two more posts will follow this one. Come on back when you find the time.
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Roger that! I simply cannot keep up with you multi-week posters! But I will try. 🙂
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That’s OK … you have those little feet keeping you occupied.
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Thank you, Frank. 🙂
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What a wonderful video, Frank. Deep space is completely unfathomable to me. Considering how immeasurable and mysterious the universe it’s a shame I get so mired down in day to day minutae!
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Debra,
Unfathomable is another great word to describe deep space and this video. Yes – unfathomable as stopped me in my tracks.
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You’re right, as per usual . . full screen is the way to go with that video. Love it.
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Marc,
The point about Full Screen was a last-minute addition to the post … so knowing that someone did it and concurred just made me smile.
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I knew it was prudent to take your advice on this one, Frank. 🙂
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That was beautiful, Frank. Thank you. 🙂
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Robin,
Knowing that you mental transform yourself into the moment, I’m not surprised you enjoyed it.
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It is quite thrilling to see these spectacular images. I wondered, when it’s all over here, if I’ll get to float through the universe, a spirit traveler in full witness, forever.
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Resa,
Oh yes … I understand how you got the feeling of floating through the universe. It is just a hard place to grasp because we are so isolated.
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