“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” –W. Somerset Maugham
This past Monday (thanks, PJ), I celebrated the completion of my 37th orbit around the Sun. This is something we all have the opportunity to do once a year, and we can choose to reflect on how we’ve changed and what we’d like to change further in the year ahead. On the grandest scales, though, the Universe might seem like it hardly cares at all about another years that’s passed.
Image credit: J. NASA and Jeff Hester (Arizona State University).
But that’s not true! The changes it makes might be small, in our Solar System, in our galaxy and beyond. But it changes all the same, and does so in a quantifiable, interesting way!
Image credit: NASA / Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1hkcTBY
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” –W. Somerset Maugham
This past Monday (thanks, PJ), I celebrated the completion of my 37th orbit around the Sun. This is something we all have the opportunity to do once a year, and we can choose to reflect on how we’ve changed and what we’d like to change further in the year ahead. On the grandest scales, though, the Universe might seem like it hardly cares at all about another years that’s passed.
Image credit: J. NASA and Jeff Hester (Arizona State University).
But that’s not true! The changes it makes might be small, in our Solar System, in our galaxy and beyond. But it changes all the same, and does so in a quantifiable, interesting way!
Image credit: NASA / Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1hkcTBY
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