Wednesday, August 12, 2009

What A Shower! Catch Up On Meteors With Twitter

The Horsehead Nebula from 'Ancient Light: a Portrait of the Universe' by David Malin

From The Independent:

Astronomy becomes art in a new book of photographs which takes us to parts of the universe our eyes cannot normally see. The results are out of this world, says Hannah Duguid.

In 1609, when Galileo first looked at the universe through a telescope, he was limited by the boundaries of his vision. He could see only what his eye was capable of perceiving. It was not until the birth of photography in the mid-19th century that astronomy was able to progress.

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