Br. Guy Consolmagno, the director of the Vatican Observatory, has published a new book entitled "A Jesuit’s Guide to the Stars," combining personal reflection with a detailed history of Jesuit engagement with astronomy.
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#PopeFrancis greets officials of the Roman Curia, including Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican astronomical observatory. The pope seemed to recognize that his job involves looking up at the stars.
255 hours on the Whirlpool Galaxy collab with 15 other astrophotographers. The longest integration ever done on this target.
We have a full in-depth write-up available here: https://t.co/hOuQoBTzFd so be sure to check it out!
"..that everyone might see clearly that the Church and her Pastors are not opposed to true and solid science, whether human or divine, but that they embrace it, encourage it, and promote it with the fullest possible devotion." -Pope Leo XIII, Refounding of the @VaticanObserv 1891
the only people I’ve seen dismissing this insightful article are ones who don’t seem to understand compression very well
the only surprise(?) is that it took a skilled writer and thinker, instead of one of us researchers, to make the case crystal clear
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