lovely resource of NASA images
looking at the images I thought of something I read today

from the New Scientist 24/06/06

the "lonely hypothesis" - that there is no rational and good God, and probably no God at all, that humankind is a speck on the edge of a vast, pointless universe - has its own splendour and self-justification. If nothing else will supply meaning in the universe, the existence and achievements of human intellect, creativity and love are quite enough.