The Universe in Color

It turns out that a coworker is seriously into astrophotography. We’re talking water-cooled CCD camera and exposures that can last days. He pointed me to Robert Gendler’s The Universe in Color. I’ve been looking at pictures there for a couple of weeks now. What a treasure trove. Many of the images have explanations about the galaxy, supernova, or object in the image.

It’s stunning to think that these images were all taken from the surface of the earth, by a non-professional, using hobbyist equipment. Hobbies are getting really serious.

Beautiful stuff. Check it out.

The Greatest Generation

Well, they’re a little young to be WWII vets, but they’ve certainly got the right idea.

One of the tourists — a retired U.S. serviceman whom officials estimated was in his 70s — allegedly put Warner Segura in a headlock and broke his clavicle after the 20-year-old and two other men armed with a knife and gun held up their tour bus Wednesday, said Luis Hernandez, the police chief of Limon, 80 miles east of San Jose.