"But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen." -Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." -William Shakespeare
In January of 2006, the Hubble Space Telescope equipped with the greatest telescope camera ever designed took this detailed picture of globular cluster NGC 1846.
"I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor. but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world." -Tycho Brahe
I want to take you back in history, back to the middle of the 1500s. Night skies were spectacular, even from the world's most cosmopolitan cities, and thousands of stars consistently graced the sky, sights only visible from a few select locations in the world these days.