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.
(Thanks to obeythepurebreed for the link)
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.