The Great Unknown

Beyond science and knowledge: the Great Unknown.

The Starwise Society

Space is virtually empty. Galaxies actually tiny.

Unknown red dot is even more billions of light years into empty, black Deep Space.

Few have dared to enter into these forbidden realms;

few have returned to tell us of them...

NASA Center:	Hubble Space Telescope Center
Image # :	PR00-08
Date :	01/11/2000

Title

A Cosmic Magnifying Glass

Full Description

Scanning the heavens for the first time since the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope imaged a giant, cosmic magnifying glass, a massive cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218. This 'hefty' cluster resides in the constellation Draco, some 2 billion light-years from Earth. The cluster is so massive that its enormous gravitational field deflects light rays passing through it, much as an optical lens bends light to form an image. This phenomenon, called gravitational lensing, magnifies, brightens, and distorts images from faraway objects. The cluster's magnifying powers provides a powerful "zoom lens" for viewing distant galaxies that could not normally be observed with the largest telescopes. The picture is dominated by spiral and elliptical galaxies. Resembling a string of tree lights, the biggest and brightest galaxies are members of the foreground cluster. Researchers are intrigued by a tiny red dot just left of top center. This dot may be an extremely remote object made visible by the cluster's magnifying powers. Further investigation is needed to confirm the object's identity. The color picture already reveals several arc-shaped features that are embedded in the cluster and cannot be easily seen in the black-and- white image. The colors in this picture yield clues to the ages, distances, and temperatures of stars, the stuff of galaxies. Blue pinpoints hot young stars. The yellow-white color of several of the galaxies represents the combined light of many stars. Red identifies cool stars, old stars, and the glow of stars in distant galaxies. This view is only possible by combining Hubble's unique image quality with the rare lensing effect provided by the magnifying cluster.

NASA Center:	Hubble Space Telescope Center
Image # :	PR00-08
Date :	01/11/2000

Galaxies are pinpoints of light in the vast nothingness of black, empty, Deep Space. Galaxies are nothing...

A train in the woods, on a definite path to nowhere...

Lava Lamp, bubbling. Mildly hypnotic paraphernalia

The impact of this possibility

is enormous. A lense of such immensity

may allow us to see outside of our

enclosed galactic universe of billions

of galaxies into what-- more empty space?

Or something different again? The mind

boggles at the possibilities it cannot

even imagine.

Universe or multiverse?

The Craft of witchcraft is entered at a more sophisticated level in Starwise than you will find in any other organization or school.

In addition to the original lesson material you receive every month, its program is designed to give you a solid basis for a lifetime of fine reading and study, continuing your explorations and adventures into the The Great Unknown.

Philosophy approaches the unknown by virtue of speculation, while witchcraft is a practical approach, touching upon the mysteries of life emotionally as well as mentally, through the use of magical tools.

This capacity of pure witchcraft to deal with both sides of the supernatural makes The Craft philosophically attractive, and that is why this program grants The Craft a higher position in its teachings than you will find in any similar Institution of Higher Learning.

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