OneAndOneIs2

I've been back at work two hours after a week off and I'm already sick of being here. Six more weeks to go before my resignation date. I've been trying not to do any counting because it makes it seem like too far away, but it's not working too well.

Oh well. I'm sure I'll get used to it soon. First day back is always hardest & all that.

Completely changing the subject, have you ever seen the Hubble ultra-deep-field image? If not, it's well worth taking a look at the high-def jpeg available at Wikipedia amongst other places.

It's quite a big picture, given that it's of an area of the night sky smaller than a grain of sand - 1/13,000,000th of the sky. It has an estimated 10,000 galaxies visible in it, some 13 billion years old - the universe itself is reckoned to be only 13.7 billion years old, so it's quite an impressive picture all-round really.

More importantly, it shows a lot of very pretty galaxies in a whole range of colors :o)

Amazing what they can do with technology these days, isn't it? Hard to believe that it wasn't so long ago that we thought the Earth was the center of the universe and stars were fixed to the sphere of the sky...