Ne absorbeat eas animas Tartarus,

[Arneb]

ne cadant in obscurum.

Looking down straight into an eternal abyss only as large as our Solar system, across 506,054,473,000,000,000,000 km, with an intrument as large as the Earth, confirming what one human thought about 100 years ago, and put to paper with a pen.



And people say we don't live in magic times? Fools.

[g-one]

[tubeswell]

Awesome

[g-one]

This stuff is way beyond my pay grade, so I found this description of the image interesting:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/scie ... mages-ever

[Arneb]

Indeed. one would be tempted to think, yeah, big deal, another orange donut in space. What gives? But it is not readily apparent how much therpry, modelling and observational skill wnt into this.