First-Ever Pics of a Star Cluster on the Far Side of the Galactic Center

These two pictures are really cool... kinda makes you think how many of those points of light are doing the same thing we are.

LOVELY! BEAUTIFUL! Our human minds reach further in the depths of space. Sigh, if only to actually venture about the cosmos.

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the spaceship Earth. Its never ending mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out life and to boldly go where no man has gone before.

I can't understand how anyone can look at these photos and still say we are alone in all of this. All those specks, each with the potential to have a planet in the "goldilocks zone"... this photo is only a microdot in the sky and it's filled with so many potential chances for life. I hope we find concrete proof of "alien" life in my lifetime.

Playing Devil's Advocate since 1978

"The only constant in the universe is change"
-Heraclitus of Ephesus 535 BC - 475 BC

@CodeZero,
Once we grab that tiger by the tail and find a planet with intelligent life, what then?

Do the scientific community leaders have a next plan?

If we do attempt to contact that intelligent life a great many years they hear us, did we give them our location for a potential enemy to concur us?

That simple question could make for a great POPSCI article too. Plan A, find intelligent life. What is plan B?

@cosmic
I really hope they agree with us too, rather than take us over. Awesome pic though, be nice to find something out other than chaos

Now I know what Vincent Van Gogh was looking at when he painted -- Starry Starry night.

Ron Bennett

@cosmic quote "Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the spaceship Earth. Its never ending mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out life and to boldly go where no man has gone before."

More like: "Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the spaceship Earth. Its never ending mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out life and to boldly sit still and not go anywhere we dream to reach."

Yet another gap in knowledge starts to get filled in thanks to human ingenuity and new instrumentation. That's what science is all about, after all. Solving mysteries, not inventing mysteries to worship and claiming they will never be solved.

iamtheparagon,
I am no poet or writter, what you wrote is good too. I adore the stars and searching the cosmos!

What Paragon wrote is a quote / reference from Star trek, he just changed it around.

Starry, starry night, the first star I see tonight, I wish?

Oh wait, now this is confusing!

Eeeek, WISH OVER LOAD! Its just to much, arg.

@Cosmic, Well if we do "find" alien life, what we do next all depends on WHERE we find this life. If it's though the budding exoplanetary search, all we can do now is really just watch, any signal we send would reach them many years later and really, anything we are seeing, could be long gone by now given the massive distances between us and these potentially life bearing planets.

Playing Devil's Advocate since 1978

"The only constant in the universe is change"
-Heraclitus of Ephesus 535 BC - 475 BC

Plan A for scientist is to find a intelligent signal in the depths of outer space.

I still believe it would make a great topic for an article, should we come across an intelligent signal in space. I like to see POPSCI ask many scientists what is the plan if we find an intelligent signal in the depths of outer space. What is the next logical step? I also like to see a variety of moral people opinions too, including, government leaders and yes religious leaders.

I have read often scientist believe that intelligent signal is out there in space. It is just a matter of time, until we find it.

So what is plan B; what will we do, once we find it?