Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA 111
PBH submitted a link to a really amazing composite image of the Milky Way released by NASA. They combined infrared, visible, and x-ray images taken by Spitzer, Hubble, and Chandra to create one beautiful image to commemorate the 400 years since 1609, when Galileo looked up.
Re:Seriously cool ... (Score:3, Interesting)
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA08329.jpg [nasa.gov]
The sun is being occulted, the reflection of the rings are seen on the dark side of Saturn. Not to mention the little faint blue dot just below the thickest part of the outer bulry ring, on the left side is supposedly Earth.