
Yeah, I know. I forgot to do an APoD yesterday. I figured I would make up for it today with this picture. Here we have enough space crap to last you until Christmas. The next time I forget to do the APoD, just come back to this picture and look really closely at any one of these specks of light and then give it a name. That's pretty much all we do as astronomers. Look at stuff and give it a name. Here, I'll show you how it's done. See that bright red dot in the top left corner? Stare at that for a few months...hell, measure it if you want to. Come up with some arbitrary scale for some attribute you think might be important. Once you think you looked at it longer than anyone has ever looked at it, have one of your assistants write up a few pages worth of summary based on your notes and then submit it to a science journal. Now you are an expert on that red dot. Congratulations.