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Hum hom. Time for my yearly post methinks. Last year has been crazy, next year will be doubly so.I have no ideas where the tides will toss me. Berlin is a possibility, my fingers are crossed.

In all likelihood life will slow down enough for me to delurk a bit here. After all I am about to once more leave my city and social life of the last three years behind. It's been too long since I last packed up my things and just went.

In the meantime there are dreams of solitude and songs to express them:





Ejection.

Edit:

Ejection. And yet.... confined to this thin blue shell. A few years ago I posted what is to me the most stunning picture ever taken. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field. To take this picture we put a satellite with a huge mirror into space and trained it at a tiny spot in the sky for a million seconds waiting for the faint light from distant galaxies to add up. The richness of the sky with galaxies each containing millions of stars is a sight beyond any proper form of comprehension. All that is left is awe.

Or to engage in abstraction. In abstraction we know much much more about the Universe than just these tiny pictures. Vast amount of data have been collected and analyzed. Much deeper surveys of quasars and galaxies have been taken, and we are learning ever more about what the Universe actually looks like. All of it. All that is causally connected to us.

Taking this data and visualising it we can get views that dwarve the Hubble images. Views born not from gazing at the sky directly but from painting a picture of the knowledge we gained through gazing.

The result is then this youtube video, possibly even more stunning than the Hubble pictures:



Enjoy.