Gorillas

WYSIWG Cats Eye Nebula Cats Eye Nebula. Sharpened Hubble image. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get - is only part of the picture. IDWIL - It Depends on Who Is Looking! Galileo Galilei made his own telescope fitting his eye sight. The men of church who dared to look at the same optical instrument did not necessarily see what he did because the lenses made by Galileo may have not given them clear view. Definitely, their sight was also affected by strong brain waves of how the world must look like according to the Bible and true religion. There probably were many who made those simple telescopes invented at the beginning of the 17th century in Netherlands. But they did not understand what they saw. The spectacular photograph from the wonderful APOD page is Astrophotography in all its glory. It gives todays astronomers a previously unimaginable amount of detailed information thanks to the astronomically expensive ...