Multi-wavelength astronomy fun

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/multiwavelength_astronomy/multiwavelength_museum/

Some pretty pictures, and really rather good didactic commentary.

Also, to do for geography what Jane Austin and the Flying Moose of Nargothrond do for literary criticism, consider the following map

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/2464/bob2fe.png

Another in the series of Very Strange Places

http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-23.50733,-68.373413&spn=0.242104,0.322037

Up in the Chilean altiplano, this is presumably some sort of mining facility; it looks a bit better on Google Earth but I'm not sure how to link to it there.

The bottom blue square is a mile and a half on a side. As to the purpose of the straight lines etched across the desert, search me.