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The Seventy-Billion-Mile Telescope


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Cosmos

Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory/Smithsonian

When I was a teen-ager, I spent many nights gazing through a telescope at an amateur observatory in Cranford, New Jersey. Saturn, to the naked eye, is a shining white dot.

From The New Yorker
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