Megan's Blog

Seeing things

The other day I was browsing through the pictures on APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) and I came across one in particular that caught my eye. It's a stunning photograph of the Milky Way spanning the sky over a 7000-year old piece of rock art in a canyon in Utah. Rock art is found all over the place and there's a lot of it here in Australia. It is often thought to depict animals or people and sometimes astronomical patterns or events, but often it 's meaning is unclear. This particular one reminded me of a certain blue box....

Milky Way Over Ancient Ghost Panel CREDIT: Bret Webster