This awesome picture was taken by the Cassini probe still in orbit around Saturn. The tiny blue dot in the upper right portion of this image is our home, planet Earth (click to enlarge). Cassini took this spectacular image looking through Saturn's rings. Despite the density of the rings we can see Earth quite clearly. Seeing this image changes our perspective of our world; it's not so big and seems very fragile.
In an earlier posting I said scientists believed the Universe was about 30 billion years old. I recently found out that, because of new reasearch and better instruments, they've discovered that it's only (!) 13.7 billion years old. That's more than half the previous estimate. How will this affect science and our understanding of the Universe? Couldn't tell ya. I will be keeping my eyes out for science magazine, websites and TV.
I wonder - how many of you remember this guy. Strange, the characters you run into on the Internet. I actually watched the show but I found this image completely by accident. I remember some Japanese guy holding up a flahlight and - kazam! - he became Ultraman. When his power got low the light on his chest would flash. Where were you when this was on TV? (Probably outside playing & having fun - lol!).
