Spaced out Sundays - early edition

This is an early Spaced Out Sunday to alert you to the need to make sure your lawn chair is in good operating condition. You’re going to need it if you plan on watching the annual Perseid meteor shower. The show begins on Saturday, peaks on Sunday night and closes down on Tuesday morning. Viewing conditions should be good – the shower coincides with a new moon, providing a nice dark background to watch the spectacle. It’s expected that on Sunday night (and in the early hours of Monday morning) it may be possible to see as many as 100 meteors per hour. And for added viewing pleasure, Mars will be visible in the eastern sky.

I got the peanuts ready...who's bringing the beer?

Spaced out Sundays

This is without a doubt the most humbling photograph I have ever seen. NASA aimed the Hubble telescope into what they thought was an empty part of space, a miniscule portion of the sky the width of a dime 75 feet away. What they found was

"a bewildering assortment of at least 1,500galaxies at various stages of evolution."

Every single light source in the photo is a galaxy…over 1,500 of them…captured by telescope in the barest sliver of the universe.

We are so small. We know so little.