Angus Phillips

The backyard sky never looked lilie this: .Some ' 200,000 galaxies whirl through space • ' . i • computer-generated model using data from the $loan Digital Sky Survey, an ambitious effort to * -map one-quarter of the cosmos. Based on images fr^m the Apache Point Observatory in New iVIexico,...

BY FRANK VTVTANO PHOTOGRAPHS BY ED KASHI ,1 AhA t 10 a.m. on a sweltering Tuesday morning, ^ our death sentence was delivered by telephone. Photographer Ed Kashi and I had made the 50-mile trip from Erbil, the Iraqi Kurds' regional capital, to Kirkuk early that morning. Two Northern Oil...