Ahoy, Lifers. This is your Captain speaking. Having been watching a lot of Cosmos lately, and having been inspired by Symphony of Science, I was reminded of an activity I used to enjoy in high school but that had fallen out of my routine in college. I used to periodically visit NASA's Image of the Day page, which if you've never done I highly recommend. They have some of the most remarkable and beautiful images you'll ever see (I considered describing them as "out of this world," but even the Life Despotic has standards). I'm always impressed that the actual images of the cosmos exceed aesthetically even my most ideal conceptions of them. To that end, I've done the legwork for you and collected here some of my favorite images from their archive. That's right, my dear readers, fear not, for this is not another long-winded and poorly-reasoned meditation on astrophysics, but rather a modest collection of pretty pictures. As I can't let you get away without having to read some text, however, I've paired the images with some of my favorite, most poignant quotes by our friend and cosmic mentor, Dr. Sagan.
Preach, Carl.
