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PROMPT July 16th NEOWISE comet: “Enjoy it while you can. The frozen ball of ice won’t return to the inner solar system for 6,800 years.” Talk about it! NEOWISE. A truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a frozen comet racing through space. Who knew? Scientists were lucky to spot it and we as mere humans down here on earth are lucky to have the opportunity to see it! I read that the comet is a leftover from the earth's creation. So I guess that means it's schrapnel from the Big Bang. And it's been out there flying around for millions of years. To me it's nearly unthinkable to think of time in relation to space. Millions of years...for our solar system that's like a day or a week or a month to us. But millions of years? My brain just won't wrap around that. I, for one, find space wonderous. What exactly is out there? And how far does it go? Is God on the outside? Or is God on the inside? Can God hold what we call space in the palm of his hand? Big questions, and I'm sure there are some big answers. And who knows when this one comet which is left over from our creation will collide with something solid and end it's frozen and firery journey. Maybe one day it will collide with another planet we don't know about. Or maybe one day it will just fizzle out and die. Or, maybe one day humans will know how to harness the comet and bring it to earth for study. NEOWISE is something that takes a lot of brain power and a lot of time to consider and contemplate. I've been out for a couple of nights trying to see it, but I've had no luck. But I think it's okay to rely on the pictures we have to get an idea of what it looks like. And thanks to our scientists and the NEOWISE space technology we actually have something "solid" to look at. Would it be corny right now to bring up an old line from Star Trek? "Space. The Final Frontier..." And Comet NEOWISE proves that. |
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