When Galaxies Collide
The Whirlpool Galaxy, the red spiral, and its companion galaxy, NG 5195 are 23 million light-years from Earth - that’s relatively close. IRAC shows the warm dust in red, a sign of active star formation probably triggered by a collision between the two galaxies. (via PBS)
(via gnostix1)
"To be or not to be; that’s not really a question."
— Jean Luc Godard (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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Japanese Map of the World and its People c. 1870 [1984x1455]](http://i.imgur.com/M3QjL.jpg)
Jeff Lowenthal Saul Bellow 1964
“I am an American, Chicago born — Chicago, that somber city — and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.” Saul Bellow, opening passage of “The Adventures of Augie March,” 1953, and a grand opening passage it is.
