New Hubble Pictures

(Hat tip to 4legs good at Plush Life) -- more at National Geographic News.

There are a great many reasons to keep the space program going. The sheer joys of seeing the universe, and its genuine wonders that beggar imagination, are among them. Among those wonders: gravity can bend light.

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These are like the "antidote du jour"

except far more beautiful (even than) kittens. More like this please! (You could even turn it into an "antidote du jour" feature ...

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

That is just lovely.

Really makes the world seem small.

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Well, remember...

... that IIRC there are as many connections in the brain as there are stars in the universe. So, the great is in the small is in the great is in the small...

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

It's an antidote I needed. Hubble is the last artifact of JFK's

legacy yet undespoiled by the DC shitcrock "unity".


We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

1 John 4:18

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