Beauty is truth

I first met Anna Marlis Burgard at a retreat house on Enders Island, near Mystic, Connecticut. She produces public ex hibitions for Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute – the folk who run the Hubble and James Webb Telescopes. When I met her, I was being nudged by the Vatican to come up with a way the Vatican Observatory could join the Jubilee Year. So together we (and our teams) created a display of a dozen space telescope images, now on view at our visitor centre in Castel Gandolfo.

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