05 April 2007

sixty million light years away and countless questions about our existence

Go H E R E to see an astonishing snapshot of galaxy NGC 1672 taken by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. The image was released on 3 April 2007 and offers an amazing high definition glimpse of a galaxy 60 million light years away. Just how far is 60 million light years? Well, one light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles -- you do the math!

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"For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers...This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me."
Albert Camus

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