Dear Friends, today's APOD only wants to be an opportunity for all of us, to observe and meditate for just a few minutes. Yes, you got it correctly: to observe and meditate. Why? Because, sometimes, the Cosmos is something that needs us to be just observers. Quiet observers - not investigators! - of its boundless Beauty. This long sequence, as you can easily see, is an example of that Beauty: a Beauty which we keep trying to understand and decode, spending hours and hours (actually days, months, years and, in the end, entire Lifetimes) in a mind-numbing struggle against the complexity of the Universe that, as we know very well, is endless by definition. And, while doing that, we are perfectly aware that the real answers, if they ever come, shall only be available to Mankind in a far and distant Future; a Future that, unfortunately, we, simple human beings of the 21st Century, shall not see. And yet, we keep going. And going. And going. Just like the many moons of the Giant Gas-Planet Saturn, which shall keep orbiting and chasing one another, 'til the End of Time. |