Wednesday, October 31, 2018

2018 Astronomy Photographer contest

The winners of the 2018 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest are out of this world. My Modern Met.





Go look, they'll blow your mind.  And they're the sort of things you can do yourself when you get out of town away from light pollution, like Erie Colorado, or Breckenridge, look up and and see the Milky Way stretch across the entire sky and you go, "Oh my God! There's a lot of stars." Whereas in town you see only the big ones and you go, "Oh, there's the Big Dipper, and there's Orion," and that's about it. But out of town you see those same things among billions of others and it makes you feel immediately tiny and it takes your breath away how small you are; how big your soul is inside your itty bitty insignificant body. How is it then that you are so magnificent? We are like the Tardis that way; gigantic inside and tiny outside and touched with the a spark of eternal divinity.