Enchanting, beautiful, and somehow sad, because most of us will never see a sky like this in person ever. Too much light pollution.
The musical cue is from The Village, amazingly enough, and it’s not one that’s available on the CD. Darn it. It’s just so beautiful all by itself.
Best seen in full-screen mode.
This is better dithered on the Kindle, but even here you can see one of Saturn’s tiny (relative to its size, anyways…) moons.
Things I want very much: Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog as a Kindle blog. Although considering that Discover Magazine’s holder is currently suing Amazon for creating a digital book reader that can download reading materials from the net, that’s probably not going to happen.
Another post over at Tor.com, about a really great book:
This article also covers my thoughts on the Kindle edition of Death from the Skies!.
Amazon’s Kindle Blog
