The Firmament

A gap in the hurly-burly

NASA released a new Uranus photo from the James Webb space telescope. The rings are spectacularly visible in infrared.

Contemplating the image had that oddly calming effect new images from space always have on me.

Space is a strange modern word that we don’t think about much. We think of Uranus being “out there” in “space,” but what exactly does that …