The Astronomy Picture of the Day is… Where The Hell Is Matt?

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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, a staple of the internet since 1995, usually delivers stunning, informative photos of celestial bodies, as they complete a very regimented and predictable dance through the cosmos.

Today, they featured a somewhat different, much less predictable sort of body.

APotD authors said, by way of explanation:

The video is perhaps a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel a common bond as part of a single species [original links preserved, and recommended].

It’s good to remember that we are not just human beings trying to understand the universe. We are a part of the universe that is trying to understand itself.  Today’s APotD embedded below:


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