I look at it when I find myself fretting about, say, book review deadlines or my spotty gym attendance. I’ve long used the image as an efficient and emphatic corrective for solipsism. Scientists say it’s an incubator for baby stars. Turner would have admired, of the Cone Nebula, a pillar of dust and gas some 2,500 light-years from Earth. It’s a dramatic and vivid picture from the Hubble Space Telescope, with colors I imagine J. Smith’s “Life on Mars” is the same one I see every day on my computer desktop. I won’t blame you for not believing this: The photograph on the cover of Tracy K.
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