I believe it was Derrida who referred to nuclear warfare as a ‘remainderless event’ — something that could exist only as a fabulous bit of text, always just a fantasy of images standing in for the unimaginable. In light of such notions, this is a rather fun project that our civilization has spawned. A network of telescopes spanning 2800 miles across the earth have all pointed themselves to the black hole at the center of the galaxy:
“No one has seen such a fine-grained view of the galactic center before. We’ve observed nearly to the scale of the black hole event horizon – the region inside of which nothing, including light, can ever escape.” [link]
Artist rendition of blackhole at the center of the Milky Way
However, for something in someways just as distant, but in others much closer to the imagination, see the below composite of images recently transmitted back from the rover Phoenix of the Martian clouds floating along [link]:
The camera took these 10 frames over a 10-minute period from 2:52 p.m. to 3:02 p.m. local solar time at the Phoenix site during Sol 94 (Aug. 29), the 94th Martian day since landing.
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