The Starry Night

A woman looks up at the Milky Way galaxy in the night sky from the Al-Salmi desert area, in southwest Kuwait. Photo: Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images.

Long exposure

A long exposure shows stars behind a tree during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower near the town of Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, August 13, 2019. Photo: Amir Cohen/Reuters.

Star Wars

A meteor streaks across the sky near the Monument to the Revolution at Kozara, during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photo: Dado Ruvić/Reuters.

Perseids

The Perseid meteor shower, also known as the “tears of Saint Lawrence” — that legend wants to be suspended in the sky but returning to earth once a year on August 10 — will be most visible during the overnight hours from tonight until Tuesday. Don’t forget to make a wish! Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

A for Andromeda

• Sam Thielman, Alien life, or noise? Russian telescope detects “strong signal” from sun-like star, The Guardian, August 29, 2016

倪傳婧 (Victo Ngai)’s “Solaris” alternative poster (2015)
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