The headline alone is a piece of beauty:
Cassiopeia, A Supernova Remnant, Is Now ‘Dust Factory’ Around Dead Star
And then there is the beauty of space dust:
Interstellar dust is found throughout the cosmos. It is responsible for the dark patches seen in the Milky Way on a moonless night. It consists of carbon and silicate particles, about the size of those in cigarette smoke. The dust helps stars like the Sun to form and subsequently coagulates to form planets like Earth, and the cores of giant gas planets like Jupiter. It is found in great quantities in galaxies, even very early in the history of the Universe.
More than this, there’s nothing…
Jesus, this is fucking drivel. Don’t you have some photos of white women with big tits you ought to be jerking off over?
As the spider knows only how to be a spider, Mudede knows only how to be Mudede.
Oh Democritus, how right you were.
“By convention there is sweetness, by convention bitterness, by convention color, in reality only atoms and the void.”
Dust to Dust, ashes to ashes. Fuck, a bible verse actually got science right for once.
At least this makes me think of Roxy Music, which is how I like to start the mornings.
I am fascinated by the the beauty of it all. It all accretes to form stars and planets that follow paralells through out the universe. That we understand this is profound in itself.
In my cosmos, the dust coagulates into big fuzzy balls that hide under furniture.
This online Atlas of the Universe is good for making one feel small if you start at the lowest level and keep moving out to the map of the “known universe”:
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/
Kind of cool.
Yep, nice Roxy Music reference… Gonna have to dig out that record now……
This just makes me think of Pullman’s “dust.”