History is probably one of my favorite subjects. I watch the History Channel as much as I can, yes I know that is strange. I just love learning about the past, but one of my favorite past times has to be star-gazing. I love to lay out under the stars and just lose myself in thought. I love star-gazing because you are literally gazing into the past. A star could have exploded 200,000 years ago and we could just now be seeing the results of that explosion. I think that is just amazing! A news article was recently released that said that we have seen the gamma ray burst from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago. Wow, that is a long time and we are just now seeing it. I think that is why i love to star gaze. I enjoy staring into the past, looking at stars who in realty are not even there any more. Maybe that makes me a dork but I don’t care. It is these nights spent star-gazing that have probably been the most memorable for me. I can lose myself in deep conversation with friends or have a romantic evening with my girlfriend. History is truly under appreciated. How many nights have you layed out and gazed into history? Have you ever had a romantic night of star-gazing? Maybe a first kiss moment, said “I love you” for the first time, marriage proposal, anniversary date! How is it that history has inadvertently helped so many people? Did the brialliant minds of the world ever sit gazing at history only to have a epiphany or break through. Next time you put down someone who loves history remember just how much you love to star-gaze.
GRB 090423 is the small, very red source in the centre of this image. The red colour is indicative of its great distance – about 13.1 billion light years – since all the optical light has been absorbed by intergalactic hydrogen gas, leaving only infrared light. All the other galaxies and stars in the image are much closer to us and just happen lie in the same part of the sky.
Behind The Keyhole 