Spectacular lenticular!

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Todayâs APOD is spectacular. Big version here.

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In blogger (and also WordPress), APOD has a widget you can put in your sidebar (I have it in mine). Unfortunately, the installation was via GUI, so I don't know the HTML or even how well it would work in the scienceblogs platform. But ir might be worth looking into since I can think of at least a couple of SEED bloggers that wouldn't mind having that widget in their sidebar.

And yes, that picture blew me away this morning; I immediately mailed it to several friends.