Astronomy Pictures of the Year
Far easier than taking out the telescope in the freezing cold is looking at the amazing pictures those professionals put out on the interwebs. Thats why I keep NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day as my homepage.
They’ve now put out their Pictures of the Year 2007. Phil Plait has his top ten list over at the Bad Astronomy website.
These kind of pictures have become so ubiquitous that I feel that many people shrug them off with a quick glance. I like to pour over every small detail, determining how much I understand of whats going on in the pictures, and the implications of the photo about where us humans really are in the universe. I always found it kind of sad that people go to synagogue to chant some prayer over and over again looking for some glimpse of spirituality, and they have no idea that the bright reddish star rising in the east is the planet Mars, and that they could see it with their naked eyes, or even the elementary knowledge that the sun is a close star undergoing constant nuclear fusion.
Science is unbiased and neutral, but by no means is it sterile. May we look forward to a day when most people can appreciate that.
- Posted Monday, December 17th, 2007
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