Astronomy Picture of the Day

Between working on my own books, and keeping up with the reading on other peoples' books, especially those on various SFF award lists around the globe, I haven't had a lot of time for astronomy fun lately. So today I thought I'd just briefly mention one of my favourite sites, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Each day this wonderful site features an image of a space related theme, with an explanation by a professional astronomer. So if, like me, every now and then you like to look up and see the stars and imagine the sheer amazingness of the cosmos "out there", then this could be a site that you will enjoy as well.

Just to give you a taste of the astronomical goodness to be experienced, here is July 15th's picture of the day, which shows two overlapping galaxies. To see the image in full and read the professional explanation of all this wonder, click here.

NGC3314, Overlapping Galaxies