--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index.cfm > > > > > > > Thanks for the link- I am really enjoying the close ups of > Saturn's > > > rings. > > > > When I saw the story that contained the link, I > > thought to myself, Ho hum, more pictures of Saturn. > > But I clicked on it just for the heck of it and was > > glad I did--I've never seen any like these before. > > > > What always gets me about the rings is the edge-on > > views. They're so thin and delicate, at least > > relative to Saturn's bulk. > > > > Have you ever seen Saturn through a really good > > observatory telescope? Ironically, it doesn't > > look real, it looks like a painting. > > > I was just thinking about a trip to our local observatory, since I > don't have a telescope.
I found it really difficult to convince myself that it was actually *out there*, and not a slide of a piece of art somebody had stuck at the end of the telescope. It's just extraordinarily beautiful.
