Starry Starry Night
Sometimes, I see a picture that’s just so well, awesome, that I have to share it.
This one is a photo of our very own Milky Way galaxy taken from the European Southern Observatory on the Atacama Plateau in Chile. The photo was taken by Yuri Beletsky, an astronomer with the ESO Chile observatory.
The two bright glowing spots to the left of the photograph are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies to the Milky Way, while part of the observatory can be seen on the right. The arc of stars spanning between the two is the Milky Way, which we are looking at from the ‘inside out’—and perhaps a similar effect to what characters in the TV series Babylon 5 would have called the “galactic rim.”
Wow! Isn’t that magnificent?
And there’s another fantastic one here, this one from the Aussie outback.
wow! I wish it was possible to look out your back door and see that!
makes you realize how small we all are 🙂
I like to get that larger perspective from time to time. I have a poem, titled Starman, coming out quite soon in Broadsheet that is ‘all about’ this exact thing …