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Happy Earth Day!

Happy Birthday Christiaan Huygens, who discovered the rings of Saturn in 1655! He would be 384 today.

Uranus became a planet this day in 1781!

Tadpole Nebula.

NGC 1483 Galaxy.

Sharpless 140 Nebula.

Titan, with Saturn in the background.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929

The Moon.

Carina Nebula / NGC 3372

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

Saturn's moon, Titan. You can see Saturn's rings cutting through the view of the moon.

Heart and Soul nebula.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883

Atmosphere of Jupiter.

North American Nebula.

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.

Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972

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