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doradus
July 2009 
When drowning in pettiness, look to the stars!
Meenakshi
2008 November 11
Credit & Copyright: Joseph Brimacombe
Explanation: First cataloged as a star, 30 Doradus is actually an immense star forming region in nearby galaxy The Large Magellanic Cloud. The region's spidery appearance is responsible for its popular name, the Tarantula nebula, except that this tarantula is about 1,000 light-years across, and 180,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado. If the Tarantula nebula were at the distance of the Orion Nebula (1,500 light-years), the nearest stellar nursery to Earth, it would appear to cover about 30 degrees (60 full moons) on the sky. The spindly arms of the Tarantula nebula surround NGC 2070, a star cluster that contains some of the brightest, most massive stars known. Intriguing details of the nebula are visible in this scientifically-colored image. The cosmic Tarantula also lies near the site of the closest recent supernova.
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With respect to your question: ”
When drowning in pettiness, look to the stars!”I ask you to consider that we each create our own experience of reality. If one is drowning in anything, isn't it a good idea to look within rather than out at the stars? I suggest that a lot more healing will occur there.
Blessed Is,
Jeremiah
It looks like Home to me :) Is just wonderful…
Even when not drowning in pettiness or anything else…
Look To The Stars! :-P
That's the picture currently gracing the screen of my new laptop monitor! Just seemed to fit the whole gamut of being on the move and tied in with the web of life and internet.
:) I see we both haunt APOD. ~~^v^~~
( Just back from sunny but cold Florida - arriving here in Canada to find two inches of fluffy white snow).
Gem
Beautiful! I'm sitting in an office with no windows right now. I often forget how wonderful the universe is beyond what I see at the moment.
What if 'looking up' was tantamount to 'looking within'?
University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, argues that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.
Under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. They remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them, not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion.
How connected are we with the galaxies? At a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected in Oneness.
So, ok, why is it so compellingly sweet to gaze out into the universe? Almost feels as if, by looking up, we might be looking at a fractal of who we really are. Every infinite part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.
So just to gaze out at the stars… goosebumps … our very atoms were once part of a star. How incredibly sweet and familiar and promising this is. What a wondrous universe this is!! Deep bows and then cartwheels of JOY!
willowinthewind, you gave the answer I was going to give Jeremiah! So I thank you both for providing me with both!
Very true, J, it's about looking within; in fact, calling one's reactions petty, is pretty much a start from looking within! So you expand to look out, and find you've reached even deeper within. WHICH, I know that all on this thread are much in tune with!
Gem, I know you're my APOD buddy, and even though I'd to stop the daily downloads, I love looking at them! Chortle! If a Canadian can give such a compliment to Florida, we can be justified in taking out our woolies!!!
Ariela, Asteri, Caroline–are these the names of the stars shining forth from this nebula?
Ah so, together much wisdom, I am fortunate to be able to look at the night sky with very little light pollution, I love that connection, Light pollution affects us and our fellow creatures -
http://www.britastro.org/dark-skies/wildlife.html
I very much agree with Jeremiah's opening statement on the matter.
I also see what you are saying, willowinthewind. “Thou art that” I feel would be apt when gazing towards the stars.
Guru Life filling us with awe and gratitude
Zephyr, that's something I thank life for daily- and told someone recently what I've liked best about finding myself in America. The unexpected benefit of seeing the stars from my own backyard! No pollution in MIami. The benefits of being not-very-developed!
Tharlam, than you for adding that wonderful statement of the Upanishads! There are posts on it on the Living Metaphysics pod, if you'd like to add your wisdom there.
HummingBird, you leave such wonderful footprints! Always make me smile
Asteri means star in Greek… but I might shine from there too, in a different dimension :) or other timeline…
WOW!
The last few days I've been seeing 2 incredibly bright stars very close together in the sky. I read that they're Jupiter and Venus.
And this:
“November nights feature super celestial sights. The two brightest planets - Venus and Jupiter - create a marvelous display in the early evening sky, all month long. …Could a similar pairing of Jupiter and Venus - nearly 2,000 years ago - be a possible explanation for the Star of Bethlehem? To explore the idea further, visit this Internet site: www.space.com/spacewatch/star_bethlehem_021220.html”