Astronomy Picture of the Day

While on holiday in Chicago we visited the Observatory. I am really not a museum-person (and therefore probably not a "true" scientist or scholar), but I was pleased to be exposed to a few ideas that were pleasing in that they could possibly enrich my life.

One was that the early man living in Africa observed the sun, moon and stars; and made objects that could be used to predict the cycle of the moon and the coming of the seasons. This is obvious, but in my mind the earliest astronomers were those dudes in India who made the sundials -- I now am opening my mind to the idea that there were intellectual steps that needed to have been made in previous generations, even ages. (I am having a similar experience while reading a book I took out the library introducing Western philosophy, but I digress)

Another is that NASA has a website where they publish an interesting image every day. While I know very little about astronomy, the photographs of stars, galaxies, the surface of moons and planets, fill me with awe.

Here is a link to the website: Astronomy Picture of the Day