Hubble has spotted an ancient galaxy that shouldn’t exist

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Source: Refreshing News - 9/10/12

This galaxy is so large, so fully-formed, astronomers say it shouldn't exist at all. It's called a "grand-design" spiral galaxy, and unlike most galaxies of its kind, this one is old. Like, really, really old. According to a new study conducted by researchers using NASA's Hubble Telescope, it dates back roughly 10.7-billion years — and that makes it the most ancient spiral galaxy we've ever discovered.

"The vast majority of old galaxies look like train wrecks," said UCLA astrophysicist Alice Shapley in a press release. "Our first thought was, why is this one so different, and so beautiful?"

Shapley is co-author of the paper describing the discovery, which is published in the latest issue of Nature. She and her colleagues had been using Hubble to investigate some of our Universe's most distant cosmic entities, but the discovery of BX442 — which is what they've dubbed the newfound galaxy — came as a huge surprise.

Hubble Telescope Sees Two Galaxies in Cosmic Dance

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Two very different galaxies feature in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, forming a peculiar galaxy pair called Arp 116. CREDIT: NASA, ESA

A stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the perfect galactic portrait: two galaxies that are so different from one another, yet together represent most known galaxies in our universe.

The new Hubble picture shows the elliptical galaxy Messier 60, and the spiral NGC 4647. Together, the pair is known as Arp 116.

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Embracing The Extraordinary

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Embracing The Extraordinary

 
a message from Sarah-Jane Grace
 
Wednesday, 12 September, 2012 (posted 13 September, 2012)
 
As the path of awakening continues, and as sleepwalkers stir all around, there is a sense that the new wave of consciousness is now filtering into all aspects of life. As we take a moment to look around at All that we Are, it seems clear that everything is changing; we are just not the same as we were yesterday or the day before. Whilst some of these shifts are subtle, others are far from this as they catapult us forward (and sometimes backward) in life. Such big shifts tend to happen for a reason; perhaps we have been choosing not to see something or opting to dig our heels in? Whatever the reason, it can sometimes be hard to rationalise such major ebbs and flow in the tides of life.

As this consciousness continues to weave its way into the hearts and souls of us all, it seems clear that some are open to this process but many are not. Some fight or resist it, but most are simply not aware of it as they walk through life with their eyes firmly closed to the true possibilities that life has to offer.

Blue StarShip/UFO Report - September 14, 2012

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GFP Note: We have changed the name of this feature to "Blue Starship/UFO Report" after some input from BlazinRiver. Thanks, BlazinRiver! Please remember that, although most of the videos in these reports do show starships, sometimes the objects are truly unidentified. And sometimes we also include interesting anomalies.
 

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Heavenletter #4312 Love Travels Faster than Light , September 14, 2012

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Heavenletter #4312 Love Travels Faster than Light , September 14, 2012 


God said: 

 

When you feel joy in your closeness to Me, imagine the joy that is Mine when I think of you. You are in My constant awareness. My joy in you has all the power of the Universe. Consider the Vastness of My joy in you. You cannot even imagine. Multiply your love for Me a million-skillion times over, and you conceive only a millisecond of the love that is Mine for you. No wonder I never sleep. With such joy that is Mine, beloveds, I stay awake in you, for you give Me such great joy, such reverberating joy, such happiness that it overflows the Universe, such happiness that it can be called bliss, can be called infinite, can be called the love of the century, only it is love beyond measure, endless love, deep penetrating love, love that surmounts everything else.

VIsionkeeper-Strong Energies

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Strong Energies…

Posted on September 14, 2012 

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Greetings all…I am not leaving off a post today. The energies are so intense right now my brain can’t even hold a thought for very long and it is a real struggle to try and write a whole post. This is all part of the journey we are on. We all are being hit by incoming energy at different levels. We just need to roll with it and love ourselves through the upheaval and try again later. We must not try to fight against it, for it is what it is. We know tomorrow is another day and all will be different. Thanks for hanging in with me. We will all reach the light together so have faith. I shall return soon…  VK

SaLuSa, September 14, 2012

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SaLuSa, September 14, 2012
 

Those souls who are deeply immersed in their religious beliefs will be amongst the last to accept the truth. That problem has been foreseen and the respective teachers on whom their beliefs are based, will return to explain what their true message was. Over time its interpretation has been deliberately changed to place more power and control into the controllers hands, so much so that the true meaning has become obscured. Our presence and your understanding of our service to you, has helped you realise that a point can be reached in your evolution when you can go within to find the truth. It clearly does not mean that you should not converse with others, as it is always useful to consider other points of view.

Sophia Love – Our Seamless Ascension ~ 2

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This process of ascending has been gradual.  With each day there is a combination of clarity, anticipation and questions.  

For quite some time I subscribed to what I’d call “magical thinking” around Ascension.  This comes close to the fairy Godmother in Cinderella.  The trouble with that is everyone knows it’s not real and at midnight its nothing but a pumpkin and some mice.  You never expect it to last.

This is not a Disney fairy tale.  As humans, we expect to have some sort of obvious, natural progression from one moment to the next.  Our memory, and thus our learning style, is associative.  We need something to hang each new fact onto.

What is true about learning is that it only happens when the thing learned connects to and thus applies to something already known.  This is why artists struggle with facts and figures and scientists with art.  Much of what is taught to our children today is not used anywhere else in their life, and thus quickly forgotten.

We’ve been fortunate.  For some time now we’ve been hearing messages from a host of channels, visionaries, and reporters about these “end times”.  We are prepared and can see the “writing on the wall”.  We’ve heard many stories. Once they may have seemed a bit “out there”; no longer.  

Today words like Reptilian, Galactic Federation, Illuminati and Cabal are everywhere.  There are few of us who have not heard about or seen a UFO.  State agencies are telling citizens to stock extra food and essentials.  Every one of the players in this End Time Scenario is performing perfectly. 

UTE: PERSONAL UPDATE: RADIANCE

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

PERSONAL UPDATE: RADIANCE

 

 

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Dearest friends,
 
Being in this Space of Grace, of Beauty, of Light and Bliss, all names for Love, there is no thing, that can touch me, because all of this is one single equilibrium. Everything in balance, while the room is radiant with invisible Light which is visible to and felt by the spirit.
 
With my eyes wide open, there is no above or below, there Only Is Presence and Radiance. While the world plays its music, and runs its course.

What you are experiencing as life is a sad and minimalist domain

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What you are experiencing as life is a sad and minimalist domain

September 14, 2012 by John Smallman

God’s Love is completely beyond your understanding!  It encompasses, envelops, and embraces all sentient life; without It there would be no life.  Your life is an aspect of divine Love; it is what you are and has nothing to do with your bodies or egos, your cultures or your religions, your ethnicity or your nationality; it is the field in which you exist, and it is all that exists.  That sounds like a paradox to you, especially as individuality — separation into parts — is the way the illusion presents itself to you.

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