Tonight Peter and I went to McCormick Observatory on Observatory Hill at UVA because it was open to the public! We got to see through three different telescopes, including the biggest one at McCormick which has a lens 26 inches across (the biggest telescope lens that exists is 40 inches - telescopes bigger than that use mirrors now instead of lenses). We saw this picture of Jupiter (in the top picture) and we could really see the stripes on Jupiter that are formed from the wind blowing in different directions! We could also see four moons around 
Jupiter (you can see one in the top left corner of the picture)!Later Jupiter dropped below the trees on its nightly path through the sky, so we couldn't see it anymore. Instead it was focused on a globular cluster, one of the "oldest" (based on what you believe about the formation of the universe) in the universe! We could see so many cool stars!
We also looked through two smaller
telescopes that were set up outside of the building. One showed the Ring Nebula and the other showed a double star that I can't remember the name of. It was cool because we could see the double star with just our eyes, but it looked like just ONE faint, blurry dot, and then when you see it with the telescope it's TWO stars, it's BRIGHT, and it's SO CLEAR! It was so awesome!
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Hmmm...God must be really BIG.
Is that a Kaká shirt you have on???
hahahaha yes of course it's a kaka shirt! jupiter's awesome, kaka's awesome, i figured they went together!
Niklas thinks it is cool that you have a Kaká shirt.
We do think it looks expensive, however.
:o)
Did you ever get my e-mail about Kaká?
totally cool? yes.
totally authentic? uh huh.
totally expensive? no way.
$15 on ebay, baby! i was gonna get a signed one but the signed one was like $40.
I have no idea what "Kaka" is, but I'm glad you have the shirt. However, I do know what Jupiter, The Ring Nebula, and what Globular Clusters are and that I think is really cool!
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