Here’s a website I chanced upon a while back and occasionally stumble back into sometimes. I can’t recall what exact searches I was doing, but I’ve ended up here more than once: NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day.
It’s Google that’s leading me here, so it must get hit quite frequently; comforting to know so I’m no that unusual a freak. Still, I’ll take a break from the astronomy stuff. Girl geek, not cool. And astronomy nerd bravado probably isn’t one of the best things for a girl to flaunt.
(Much as I’m glad to be a geek, I once told my colleague I was in Astronomy Club in junior college, and he replied, “You really tried your hardest to be one, didn’t you?” Thanks, Phil, you really know how to make a girl feel good. And people wonder why I’m such a private person. In hindsight, I should’ve taken my dictionary and launched it towards the space-time region of his flamboyant head. Hee.)
Anyhoo, I’ve seen the Milky Way before, when I was really young and my dad pointed it out to me. But it didn’t look anywhere close to any of these amazing images.
The website’s got plenty many pictures — astronomy is such a broad subject — some more amazing than others. Go to the APOD index or do a search (milky way or nebula, etc). I think the best pictures turn up. Our world is awesome, but every now and then, it’s nice to peek into what wonders the universe holds.
Tags: astronomy, milky way, nasa, nasa astronomy picture of the day
