Every atom in our bodies was fused in the body of an ancient star. NASA astronomer Dr. Michelle Thaller explains how the iron in our blood connects us to one of the most violent acts in the universe- a supernova explosion - and what the universe might look like when all the stars die out.
Researchers have unearthed what are probably the only surviving recordings of the voices of Virginia Woolf, from 50 years earlier, of Alexander Graham Bell (below) and from a quarter of a century earlier still, perhaps the oldest sound recording of all, French schoolchildren singing Au clair de la lune.
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery before my eyes? - Anaximenes, 6th Century B.C.E.
The next Venus transit will be in 2117. That is 105 years from now. It's unlikely that anyone reading this today will still exist then. Think about that: The next time the orbits of Earth and Venus align just so to create a transit, the world will be entirely populated by an entirely unborn generation - Adam Frank, http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/06/04/154282601/the-venus-transit-wh…
The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself - Carl Sagan
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight up - Fred Hoyle
Remove all the space within the atoms making up the human body, and every person that's ever lived would fit inside a baseball - Robert Krulwich http://exp.lore.com/post/47540507937/remove-all-the-space-within-the-at…
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is - Jorge Luis Borges
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery before my eyes? - Anaximenes, 6th Century B.C.E.
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight up - Fred Hoyle