“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
Yes, it's true, with 2015 upon us, the new year holds a number of wonderful new things. Not only for us, but for the Universe as well!
Image credit: Stuart Rickard of After Ice, viahttp://blog.after-ice.com/stuart-rickard/.
Consider all the time that's passed, leading up to today. Consider how far we've come, from the Big Bang until right now, as "one Universe year," and now imagine, looking forward, what the next Universe year (or years) will hold.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Jee (University of California, Davis), J. Hughes (Rutgers University), F. Menanteau (Rutgers University and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), C. Sifon (Leiden Observatory), R. Mandelbum (Carnegie Mellon University), L. Barrientos (Universidad Catolica de Chile), and K. Ng (University of California, Davis).
Come take a look into our far future, and start off 2015 with a bang!
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Actually this dovetails nicely with your previous post - the universe doesn't look so 'fine-tuned' with a future full of cold black dwarfs and evaporating black holes!