Somehow I never thought I’d see this in anything other than an artist’s rendering: Earth & Jupiter, photographed from Mars. It includes the planets’ moons as well. Amazing. Via Making Light

We’ve got a terrible budget shortfall out here, and various organizations are trying to fundraise to keep themselves afloat. Through 10/15 there had been approximately $95,000 collected for state libraries through the Friends of the Library and another $85,000 had been donated directly to the state library. There had been approximately $1,000,000 collected through 10/8 …

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