Voyager: “We are approaching the solar system’s final frontier”

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Here’s a short informative video from Science at Nasa on the indications that Voyager 1 is about to enter into the vastness of interstellar space.  (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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Space, remember, is very very big.

And on that note, because I can, here again is some wondrous time-lapse video of the night-sky above the ESO Very Large Telescope array [VLT], in Chile, from NikoBustos. [Video credit: ESO/José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org)]

Or even this [Video credit: ESO/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard) ESO/José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org)]

And, of course, the Milky Way is just one galaxy among many. 

And here’s a quick zoom through images from the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field towards UDFy-38135539, the most distant galaxy ever detected.  [Video credit: A. M. Swinbank and S. Zieleniewski, Music: movetwo.]

 

 

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