and all that could have been

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[ortut]

Alexander McQueen - Crown of Thorns Headpiece, F/W 1996–1997 Installed at The Met Cloisters’ Treasury. The tapestry in the background is a Southern Netherlandish altar frontal depicting the instruments of Christ’s Passion, 1475–1550. Photograph by Risham Majeed

[mothgirlwings]

Concept art by Mary Blair for Walt Disney’s Cinderella - (1950)

[throatoftheworld]

Rabid Bloodsucker by Seb McKinnon

[huariqueje]

The Library - Katy Serra ,  2025.

French , b. 1962 -

Oil on canvas , 61 x 46 cm.

[rudhacharya]

This obsession with the moon 

[you-are-another-me]

[gloamglozer]

The Offering of the Six Devas at Ngong Ping, Hong Kong

[pinkblanc]

[michaelnordeman]

Purple Emperor/Apatura iris/sälgskimmerfjäril. Värmland, Sweden (10 July 2025 and 2 July 2026).

[halicablissoutv11]

2013

[michaelnordeman]

Song Thrush/taltrast, juvenile. Värmland, Sweden (27 June 2026).

[norfisthewhimsy]

[dailyclassicart]

Johann Wilhelm Cordes - "After the Storm"

[loumargi]

This is Where it Ends 2012 Mats Tusenfot

[worldscoolest]

[miamaimania]

"Tempest" (2009) by David Spriggs — white paint on layered transparencies inside a display case

[bestiolin]

[nasa]

That's us, together.

While we're looking up at the Artemis II astronauts journeying to the Moon, they're looking back home at us. 

In this image, Earth peeks through the capsule window, reminding us that a view like this relies on the ingenuity and hard work of countless people back home.

In the second image, we see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere.

Follow the Artemis II astronauts on their journey to the Moon: