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Astronomy at its finest . . .

Sarah Ball Dodson — The Morning Stars — 1910

The Comfort of Wonders

When I'm feeling overwhelmed by life's demands (more often than I care to admit), I turn to nature's astronomical wonders for comfort (and sometimes the old comic books—but ignore that I said that).

The vast universe, as captured by the wonderous Hubble, is my narcotic.

This nebula, IRAS 05437+2502, is a floating mountain of interstellar dust, with some mysterious features still being worked out by astronomers. It looks a bit like I would imagine Mt Olympus to be. The spikes on the stars are artifacts of the photo process, but are oh, so gorgeous.

Alone

I've been wanting to digress from StarHawks, just for a bit, to have a little break from black and white, but I didn't want to disturb the mood too abruptly. So how about this magnificent distant planet view of a galaxy rise, painted by Bob Eggleton, entitled Alone.