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Show great pictures
Professor David Malin
Photographic scientist-astronomer, Adjunct Professor of Scientific Photography, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Owner of David Malin Images
If the story has a good visual, use it, but if it does not, don't worry. If the story is about galaxies, include a strong picture of a galaxy, with a brief caption (always supply caption material) that says something that's not in the story; "This spiral galaxy is like [the subject of the story], but it is only 60 million light years distant". If it's a story about black holes, use a galaxy with a big black hole in it or an IR image of the Galactic centre "Our galaxy, the Milky Way, hosts a massive black hole at its centre". The possibilities are endless, as are freely-available images on-line. Do not use graphs, diagrams or complex visuals that cannot be grasped at a single glance. Do not use visuals that depend on subtle colour or a delicate range of tones if it is to be reproduced in B&W on newsprint paper.
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