An astrophotographer-guerrilla with the help of an ultra-compact reconnaissance complex broke through the intergalactic blockade and successfully completed an 87-minute special operation to capture photons! While the personnel at the Earth command post were taking a tactical pause over a cup of tea, the quanta of light that had broken through the defensive redoubts 28 million light years away surrendered. They escaped from the Sombrero (M104) stronghold back in the Oligocene (when the ancestors of monkeys were just learning to hold a stick) and all this time were...