Wonder Junkies: The Cosmos, A Case in Point - Dr. Kelly Cline

We started with the simple joys of the watching the night sky here in Montana. Then we worked outward: visiting the moon, each of the planets, many of their moons, Pluto, then double back for the Sun, then nearby stars, planets around other stars, nebulae, black holes, the galaxy as a whole, other galaxies and their structures, quasars, a few of the key unsolved mysteries about our universe (dark matter, dark energy) emphasizing that what we know is tiny compared to what is out there, then the Hubble deep field, and estimates of the total size of our universe. Finally, we concluded by noting that while our universe is unimaginably big, it is a UNI-verse: No matter where we look we find the same types of atoms, the same force of gravity, the same laws of nature, the same design, the same hand has shaped everything that we see. Whew! Yes, there was plenty to talk about!