"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"Correction: It is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum. The 'Times' regrets the error."
NY Times, July 1969.

— New York Times

NGC6166 neighborhood

By marzulloj at Sat, 07/10/2010 - 12:40pm
NGC6166 neighborhood

Noted in this photo from last nigh are the galaxies I could identify. View the picture full resolution by clicking on "ORIGINAL" below. There are more you should be able to find, which I have not circled. This wall of galaxies in next to the Keystone of Hercules. (All numbers are from the PGC catalog unless otherwise identified.)