When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. -- John Muir, Travels in Alaska, 1915.
(Image: The Whirlpool Galaxy - M51 - viewed last year by the Hubble Space Telescope)
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