When I was young, about 13 or so, my dad brought me a telescope and microscope to explore both the micro-universe and the macro-universe. They were modest things; the telescope had a maximum zoom of 400x and the microscope’s zoom was 200x. I used to love standing out in the garden during the depths of the night, just staring up at the stars and following planes. As I grew older and astronomy no longer had a place in the physics curriculum my star gazing days were left behind. Instead, my eyes were turned away from the heavens and towards the universe that lies within us, and here I am today studying all about it. Recently, I saw a link to The sky at night on BBC Iplayer, which sent me hurtling back to the nights of stargazing. The sheer size, magnitude and beauty of the universe, here at home on earth and out beyond the reach of my little grey telescope is awe inspiring and extremely humbling. So I decided to collect some beautiful pictures from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the day website and share them with you. Each picture has an explanation, and caption which you can view by clicking on it. Enjoy!
You remember once I said smiles can be found any where if you look hard enough? Well there’s a smile in the beautiful photograph above. See if you can spot it.
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Title: Forever Young – Jay Z ft. Mr Hudson
All Photographs – Taken from http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
Holy Qur’an, Surah Al Mulk, Chapter 67 : Verse 4
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12 January 2011 at 00:09
The photos of the outer space are so amazing. I remember one of my friends saying she wants to be an astronaut someday... I think maybe she want to see all this things. I love savoring moments like watching amusing photos like this... makes me relax..and calm.. makes me enjoy beauty every where... I never tried looking at telescope.. but whenever I try starring at the starry skies.. I think I'm quite content.
12 January 2011 at 00:27
Lovely post!
you never told me you had a thing for Astronomy. That's another thing we have in common :D and haha! Good ol' Edmonton and the lovely Northern lights. I shall add that to a special 'to-do list' of mine. =]
Thank you for sharing the incredible pictures and the quote from the Quran. =)
Yours Truly x
12 January 2011 at 05:47
Allahu Akbar. Literally. I sort of read the ayah of the quran first and then looked twice. Ya Allah I don't see a single flaw. Only beauty. Nas, thankyou. This made my night. May Allah reward you for that yo!
lol I threw in the yo! cause it sounded too "religious-y" :P
12 January 2011 at 16:22
subhanallah! wow I'm in awe, absolutely loving these pictures. & thank you for sharing
~miss anon~
12 January 2011 at 23:28
I kind of have something for you here at CLICK HERE but I don't know if you'll like this..but anyway I still included you... x)
13 January 2011 at 03:28
I FOUND THE SMILE!!!!!!!!
and that is the highlight of my day.
13 January 2011 at 14:41
@ Kamila: It is beautiful, just to take a few seconds out from your daily rush rush life to look up at the stars, and they never disappoint. Most people spend life with their head down, reading, studying, making, operating, cooking; meaning some people never look up to the heavens.
&& I'll visit your link when I've finished this :)
13 January 2011 at 14:42
@ Yours Truly: You're welcome! THE list? =P.
x
13 January 2011 at 14:44
@ рεяfεcтℓγ▪ιмpзяfзcт: Amazing isn't it? And I'm glad it made your night :.
LOL Yo dude, it don't matter what the comment sounds like :P.
13 January 2011 at 14:45
@ Miss Anon: You're most welcome. Maybe one day I can share more :)
13 January 2011 at 14:46
@ Safiyyah: Gooood! Now smile yourself, and have a lovely day.
13 January 2011 at 21:03
Duuuude! where is the like button here?!
Love the pictures, simply stunning!
&& im having major trouble finding that smile and I know when i have finally seen it I'll be kicking myself!
8-)
Remind me to tell you the Asian Stars joke!
x
14 January 2011 at 14:17
@ Smiley: The smiley face? look at the top most leaf of the plant in the bottom right of the final photo. Then go up slowly from there, and in between the clouds you can see the moon, jupiter, and venus which together form the smiley face.
I will do :)
x
14 January 2011 at 23:22
Subhanallah, truly amazing :)
18 January 2011 at 20:56
Those pictures are breathtaking!! and with the Ayah...it rocked it all!!! Great post, Great blog...have no idea why I never came across your page till now, though there are very few brothers who blog.
Would it be lame if I tell you that I'm also of those who thought you're a sister at first untill I read your about page, don't know why :S it's definitely not the poem.
Anyways will surely keep up with it, happy blogging! :]