Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Looking up

A few astro notes:

The Perseid meteor shower is peaking tonight and tomorrow:



Also, Saturn is at its equinox, and the Cassini spacecraft is sending back some lovely images. Here's a raw image I just pulled:

And here's an image from a few days ago, seemingly showing an object plowing through the rings:

Enjoy!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pretty!

Dr. Lisa said...

Saturn is always soooooo pretty.