Another Way of Seeing

WHILE I WAS LOOKING FOR A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON EARTHLY NEWS . . .

NASA photograph, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

Winding up a week of not great news the leader of the free world sat down with the autocrat responsible for untold crimes against humanity and a devastating, ongoing war. Very little good news on Planet Earth.

But then, courtesy of the Cloud Appreciation Society, (I’m Member #45,662) came today’s photo. It celebrates the 35th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Taken by Hubble, the photo shows “a small portion of the Rosette Nebula…5,200 light years away.” There are dark dust clouds and “just visible in the upper right of the dark cloud, a young star fires jets of plasma…” 

Planet Earth is not even in the picture.