Whatever I had imagined Lichfield Cathedral would contain I certainly wasn’t prepared for a huge model of planet Earth. Called Gaia, it’s an imposing artwork by Luke Jerram.

It brought home to me just how far up the planet from the South Pole the British Isles are. From most angles of the cathedral’s floor they couldn’t be seen:-

Gaia from the cathedral choir:-

Well that’s what this picture looks like to me.

It comes from the European Space Agency (ESA) via Astronomy Picture of the Day for 16/5/18 using data from the Gaia satellite and shows the rotation of the Greater Magellanic Cloud or Large Cloud of Magellan.