The Wonders of the Universe

There is a place with four suns in the sky – red, white, blue, and yellow; two of them are so close together that they touch, and star-stuff flows between them.

I know of a world with a million moons.

I know of a sun the size of the Earth – and made of diamond.

There are atomic nuclei a mile across that rotate thirty times a second.

There are tiny grains between the stars, with the size and atomic composition of bacteria.

There are stars leaving the Milky Way. There are immense gas clouds falling into the Milky Way.

There are turbulent plasmas writhing with X- and gamma-rays and mighty stellar explosions.

There are, perhaps, places outside our universe.

The universe is vast and awesome, and for the first time we are becoming a part of it.

Notes:

Carl Sagan describes some of the amazing things science and astronomy have discovered in our universe.

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 Carl Sagan's cosmic connection
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Sagan , Carl (2000-10-23), Carl Sagan's cosmic connection, Cambridge Univ Pr, Retrieved on 2012-01-01
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    • Folksonomies: science


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    Memes from scientists about the beauty and wonder all around us.
    Folksonomies: enlightenment science manifesto wonder
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