Tag: scientific beauty

• An Eclipse of Extraordinary Beauty (Science Advent 19)

  (Every day until Christmas, I’ll be posting a science-related image.) Day 18 Probably my favorite astronomical image of all time shows Saturn eclipsing the Sun. It’s a view we’ll never see from Earth: Saturn orbits farther out than we do, so it will never pass between us and the Sun. However, the Cassini probe (my…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 20, 2012

  Astronomy

  Advent 2012, Saturn, scientific beauty