Queria parabenizar aqui os jornalistas a Folha de São Paulo por essa matéria linda: um mapa com os locais do Rio citados em livros de autores clássicos. Além de historicamente interessante, um tesouro para amantes da Literatura que querem entrar nas obras. https://t.co/jwQZmHDPo2
Images showing the dust and cosmic rays on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with stars moving in the background.
These images were filmed back in 2016 by European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft Rosetta using OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System).
If history has taught me anything, it's that humans are capable of doing horrible things, but when we want to, we're also capable of incredible feats like this one. It's part of the reason why I remain hopeful of our future despite the state of the world these days. Every time I read the news, I get a deep sinking feeling in my chest and everything seems overwhelming.
Strangely enough, when I look at these images of a comet flying around millions of miles away, I feel tranquility. I stop worrying about what I can't control. In the grand scheme of things we're just a tiny spec in the history of the grand cosmos. We'll come and go like everything else. Just a few thousand years ago, we were telling stories around a fire in caves. And now, here we are, capable of engineering a probe to land on a 4 km space rock going at 130,000 km/h, taking photos, and beaming it back to earth so that we can view them from the palm of our hands. Nothing cooler than that.