Friday beautiful science

Here's a solar view from a satellite orbiting the earth. The moon looks so small, due to the fact that the satellite is much further from the moon than Earth is. Read about it here.

Science is beautiful

Check out this fabulous image from the Cassini space probe, taken of Saturn in January. It's a composite of multiple over-exposed shots, to see the dark in between the rings. A glorious shot if ever there was one.