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The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, aka (mercifully) ESO, has released an impressive image of the Helix Nebula captured by La Silla Observatory in Chile. The nebula, lying at around 700 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius, has quickly been dubbed the “Eye of God”, for obvious reasons.
Beautiful.

This post comes as a result of a conversation that I had this past weekend about where the fault should be laid for this latest economies crises. I claimed, and still do, that the blame is our own. As a whole we are spending money we don’t have and our life’s choices are catching up [...]

And this year there is plenty of fodder. Click on any image to view it’s full size.