Danny Choriki lives, and comments from Montana, Sol 3, Milky Way, Local Group but misses living in New York City. He is trained in the social sciences, is a classical liberal, a humanist and given a choice would have gotten a kick out of living in Florence during the 15th Century.
The banner image is from the Two Micron All Sky Survey is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. It is a model of our home, the Milky Way Galaxy.