Current mood:	accomplished
Current music:	I would...etc - the universe had expanded so enormously

on a light-er(haha so punny) note...
in celebration of the 18th birthday of the hubble telescope's launch, there has been a compilation of the best pictures of colliding galaxies taken by hubble. some of these are simply amazing. it's almost mind-boggling trying to comprehend the scale of the interactions and, although galaxy collisions don't often result in stars colliding with each other due to the density of stars being quite small, two stars bigger than the sun slamming into each other is something i'd love to see. from very far away.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/image/

there's a ton of cool information on that site, but the link i sent is just the 59 images released together today. poke around the site, you wont be disappointed.
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after a painstaking 2 weeks of research culminating in two presentations today, my advisor asked me how i liked this first semester. i told her that, despite having times with work that almost feels overwhelming, i enjoy it a lot. she was very happy with what i did today and for this semester and said i've done better than she predicted.