‘천상열차분야지도’ - 14th century Korean star map (digital image)
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the waste land
agnostic. lesbian. fangirl. multishipper. intj. inconsistent as fuck. impulsive and fickle follower. does not work or play well with others. old enough to know better. overeducated and underpaid.
WHAT IF other planetary bodies orbited our world at the same distance as the moon?
whoa Jupiter kinda in my personal bubble thanks
Jupiter would actually be terrifying.
Is that Earth orbiting Earth
And then THERES JUPITER.
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Starry Sky by Max Wolf, c. 1900
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Jupiter From Beneath
Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is rendered into a mass of concentric cloud patterns in this unusual view, constructed from data gathered with the Cassini spaceprobe during its December 2000 fly-by of the giant planet. The image stitches together data from 36 separate exposures taken over the course of nine hours as the spaceprobe passed by some 10 million kilometres (6.2 million miles) away. Despite an equatorial diameter 11 times larger than Earth’s, Jupiter rotates in less than ten hours, wrapping high- and low-pressure weather systems into parallel bands around the equator.
I look up — many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big — but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity.
That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you.
That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…
- Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson [ x ]
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Chris McCaw - Sunburn (2012)
Vintage photo paper exposed to the sun over long timeframes, resulting in landscape images literally seared by the sun.
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Marsha Cottrell’s drawings, 2011-2012, iron oxide on mulberry paper
Brooklyn-based artist Marsha Cottrell creates deft, intricate drawings of stellar landscapes, imaginary worlds floating light years away. ”The first landscape images in art I connected with as a young person were da Vinci’s “deluge” drawings,” she told Review Interview. “I was attracted to the idea that they were not representations of actual places, but eternal/internal landscapes that might be found anywhere at any moment in time. Their energy, architecture, and intricacy—but not rigidity—always appealed to me. They seemed to present an open platform with which to interact, and I’ve always aspired for my own work operate in a similar way.” Click to look through the stars, and then be sure to head over to Cottrell’s website to check out more of her work. [flavorwire]
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Super Moon
— June 23, 2013
Be sure to look out for the Moon these next few months as it approaches Perigee, because the full moons during these times will appear exceptionally large. The Moon will be at its Perigee, or closest approach, in July 23 and it will reach full moon only a few minutes after it passes this point in its orbit.
These ‘super moons’ not only appear larger because they are physically closer but, combined with a full moon, the mind can play tricks on you to think they are much larger. This phenomena is called the Moon Illusion. Try to catch these full moons as they rise/set because the illusion works when there is an object in the foreground, like a tree, building or mountains.
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Linda Connor
contact prints on printing-out paper from vintage glass plate negatives of Solar Eclipse from the collection of The Lick Observatory
1893-1910, prints made 1977-1996
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wickedlovelyperfectlyimperfect:
This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the Perspective of another planet. Epic times indeed
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Saturn’s moon Prometheus and the F Ring, photographed by Cassini, 29 October 2008.
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