Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Picture/Quote of the day (November 18, 2009).


(ESA): The pair of galaxies NGC 1531/2, engaged in a spirited waltz, is located about 70 million light-years away towards the southern constellation Eridanus (The River). (lisence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported)

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." -Carl Sagan

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