Butterfly emerges from stellar demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302. (Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team)

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe.

The first snapshots from the refurbished Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope’s new vision. Topping the list of exciting new views are colorful multi-wavelength pictures of far- flung galaxies, a densely packed star cluster, an eerie “pillar of creation,” and a “butterfly” nebula.
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The Matter Of Everything is a feature documentary that challenges us to see beyond our everyday sense of experience into the unseen universe. From the quantum to the cosmos, The Matter Of Everything journeys deep out of the foundations of nature to reveal what we are, at billionths of the human scale. At that level, physicists at Fermilab, one of the largest particle research facilities in the world, describe a universe that is more unified than ever imagined. {source: RiverchoirFeed}

John E. Mack

Excellent article on the late Harvard Medical School psychiatrist John E. Mack.

On September 16, 1994, 62 children in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, said they saw a spacecraft land near their school. Some claimed they communed with the small, dark-eyed beings who emerged from it, and were warned about the damage humanity was inflicting upon planet Earth.

Two months later, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist John E. Mack was on a plane to Africa, where “he interviewed 14 or 15 kids,” says Randy Nickerson, whose work-in-progress documentary, Encounter in Ruwa: The Ariel School Sighting, screens in Cambridge on Friday. “One of the things that really fascinated me was the consistency of their stories and drawings. It still astounds me.”
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