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Carpe Noctem

Club Slogan: “Carpe Noctem”

Latin for “seize the night” (the clear, steady, dark night sky)

NGC_602_Carpe_Noctem

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. We see the universe the way it is because, if it were different, we would not be here to observe it.”
– Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

About the image:
Open star cluster NGC 602 is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way) in the direction of the southern hemisphere constellation Tucana – the Toucan.

"Ah, where would be any food for spirituality, without night and the stars?" -- Walt Whitman

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