Astronomical Medicine

December 3, 2009

Beautiful, humbling, unfathomable vistas to contemplate during fretful times:

A digital, zoomable panorama of over 3,000 images stitched together, capturing the highest resolution view of our galactic night sky ever created:
http://galaxy.phy.cmich.edu/~axel/mwpan2/

A crescent phase Earth, as seen by the departing Rosetta spacecraft as it makes its 5 year journey to rendezvous with a comet:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091123.html

No worries.

crescentearth_rosetta

(Thanks to obeythepurebreed for the link)

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Bianca Castafiore December 4, 2009 at 8:38 am

thank you for these links. i found myself pushing the “zoom out” button on the vast panoramic view. i believe this is a first — that something should be more beautiful, defined, and perfectly contained the farther away i get.

it’s… fitting.

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