The images contained here are from the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day project . The entire project archives, from June 16th 1995, are available to search and view, and a new image is uploaded each day.All credit goes to NASA and to those who photographed the scenes. I am simply attempting to package them in a pleasing way, so that they may be enjoyed by all.

Preface As the old adage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words ; in these pictures, there are a million. Gaze upon them and learn the infinite beauty of the cosmos. See it, and understand it for what it is: a chaotic harmony of creation, destruction, and transient equilibrium. For to understand the cosmos is to understand a little more of ourselves - to understand our place in this vast, unending, uncontrollable majesty. We are but tiny, infinitesimal specs on the surface of this reality. Beautifully insignificant. Fantastically pointless. Yet, wonderfully here. Here, and able, if we try, to see ourselves for what we are; a collection of cells, on a lump of matter, orbiting an average ball of superheated gas, in a quiet part of a fairly normal galaxy, one of hundreds of billions visible and possibly many more invisible. We are not amazing, we are not incredible, we are not Gods, we should not bow to those who claim to be so. We are a wonderful coincidence of events. And maybe that's how we should act.



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