Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Astronomer Bill Keel took the picture earlier this month (July 7) while standing near the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea contemplating the sky in the direction of the center of the Galaxy (right of picture center). ... The Viking 2 spacecraft was launched on the Road to Utopia in September of 1975 (30 years after Bing, Dotty, and Bob). ... Galileo's First Color Image of Io . ... Looking Down on Saturn . ... This picture of Saturn could not have been taken from Earth. ...