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Stories on physics, math, astronomy! Also plays trombone.
See the solitary bright crater on the lower left? It's named after Aristarchus of Samos, who proposed that the Earth orbits the sun 1,800 years before Copernicus. An unbelievably insightful idea for its day (sadly ignored).
Image taken tonight by my tiny telescope.
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