[petuniasevan]

APOD PING!

[sleavelessinseattle]

The Messier Catalogue fascinates me...the concept that we are facing infinity in any direction we look(more or less) and that the longer we look the more we see, but there are all these old classification systems that came about based on what was perceived at the time...I like to breath, but I'd really put up with quite a bit of discomfort to sit in space with a really clean helmet(do you ever think of the astronauts...what if they sneeze? They have maybe 100 hours in their life outside the atmosphere completely except for the moisture in their breath and whatever crud has been deposited in their helmet...I'd be bringing an industrial drum of Windex and some serious lens cleaning cloth if I were offered the chance to space walk...I want my Version one Mod 0 eyeball to take it all in...Love my APOD...Thanks Petunia for everything !:-) the board is green, over, go for burn...

[2Trievers]

Deep sky hugs 'tunia and happy asterisms! &;-)

[aomagrat]

10,000 light years

So far away and so long ago. The time and distance of space is hard for my simple mind to comprehend.