"And, I Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given unto me, in Ur of the Chaldees; And I saw the stars, that they were very great…"
From the Nasa web page their "Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system. Astronomers say the water vapor is pouring down from the system's natal cloud and smacking into a dusty disk where planets are thought to form.
The observations provide the first direct look at how water, an essential ingredient for life as we know it, begins to make its way into planets, possibly even rocky ones like our own."
I want to be an ATM soon. For the uninitiated that is amateur telescope maker. Last week we gazed through a friend's 12 1/2" Newtonian Reflector. He built it himself and it only made me realize more my 8" Celestron needs to be replaced. He will teach me how to grind the mirror. We saw the double stars in the handle of the Big Dipper, the Moons of Jupiter, our own lunar landscape, a star cluster and the Andromeda Galaxy, 'and they were very great'.
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star searching is always very cool. when i was a girl, my dad used to point out constellations to me. he'd wake me up in the middle of the night to see a meteor shower. or he'd let me stay up late to look at the full moon.
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