There is beauty enough in this universe. The distant Cassini probe has opened a tiny window on the glory within our own solar system. Click on them to see higher resolution versions at the NASA site. The first image taken from Saturn’s shadow. You can spot the earth as a tiny point of light, hovering on the upper left of Saturn’s rings.

Though the ancients could not have imagined this sort of cold beauty, it is entirely appropriate that they named the planets after gods.