The immortal words of Hamlet "There's a lot more under heaven and earth than is imagined in your philosophy Horatio" are words modern astronomers must learned to embrace fully during the human journey to the beginning of space and time. The solar system in itself is a lot more active and dynamic than first thought and astronomers are finding things just in our own backyard that are currently making modern astronomers smile at their discoveries. Modern astronomers who are essentially detectives trying to discover things science only imagined and trying to understand the mechanics and origins of the mysteries they view.

Like forensic scientists examining the scene of a crime, astronomers using data and information provided by NASA's Galileo, Cassini and New Horizon missions, recently traced telltale ripples in the rings of Jupiter from a decade ago to the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the ring system of and Jupiter. They also believe similar ripples observed in the ring system of Saturn could be the result of a similar collision between Saturn's rings and a comet, or space debris of some type.

What does all of this indicate to the astronomers looking at this information? The astronomers think the fact that we can view traceable evidence of events that happened during the last three decades, and even sooner, indicates the solar system and corresponding universe is a lot more dynamic and active than we first thought. At first, astronomers were thinking they would be looking at events only from millions of years ago in the past, but they're finding things of interest to the human journey to the beginning of space and time in our own backyard.

What will they find next? Tune in next time to this website to find out as we continue the human journey to the beginning of space and time.