astronomy
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A World Still Being Born: The Youngest Planet Ever Seen, and the Book of Changes’ ‘Ceaseless Begetting’
Astronomers directly imaged Elias 2-24 b, a planet less than a million years old — the youngest ever seen, still pulling material from its disk. The universe is not finished; it is still giving birth.
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The Decagon No One Drew: Saturn’s South-Pole Geometry and Laozi’s ‘The Way Follows What Is So of Itself’
Hubble found a perfect ten-sided shape circling Saturn’s south pole — no ruler, no wall, no designer, just fast and slow winds meeting. Laozi named this 2,500 years ago: the Way follows what is so of itself.
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Are We Alone? The Contested Life Signal on K2-18b, and a 2,500-Year-Old Truth: To Know That You Do Not Know
JWST found a possible fingerprint of life on K2-18b, 124 light-years away then scientists said, honestly, we do not know yet. Confucius called that caution the highest wisdom.
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You Are Made of Stardust: JWST’s Cosmic Collision and the Ancient Truth of ‘Heaven and Human Are One’
JWST watched galaxies collide and scatter heavy elements across the early universe — the same atoms that make up your body. ‘We are stardust’ is not poetry but inventory, and Zhuangzi named this oneness 2,300 years ago.
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The Celestial Clockwork: Harmonizing Longevity with Universal Rhythms
Every cell in your body keeps time. Not metaphorically — there is a molecular oscillator running inside your tissues, and it was built to match the turning of a planet. That fact earned a Nobel Prize in 2017. It was also, in a different vocabulary, the organizing assumption of East Asian thought for two thousand…