The Grand Staircase

21/biochem major ~ Among my frivolous thoughts, I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts.

[just-desi-thinqs]

Plan A: become a doctor Plan B: marry a doctor

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Valles Marineris

[thebeautifulcosmos]

Art by Robert McCall.

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😱 😱 This image contains more than half a MILLION stars. ✨ Image: NASA, ESA, and Hubble Heritage Team #science http://ift.tt/23mhBSt

[just--space]

The original nine. js

[micdotcom]

For more on the Fermi Paradox and why alien life hasn’t found us yet. (Infographic via futurism)

[myboyfriendpetebuttigieg]

I’ve blogged about this paradox before, but I’ve never read all of these resolutions to it, nor have it seen it explained in such a simple infographic.

[itscolossal]

The Chart of Cosmic Exploration Elegantly Details 56 Years of Human Adventures into Space

[outragedbird]

NEED

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[nubbsgalore]

photos by bhuminan piyathasanan in new zealand and tasmania

[skunkbear]

A genius named Eleanor Lutz made a beautiful map of one interesting slice of Mars (based on this USGS map). She says:

Recently I’ve been really into old maps made by medieval explorers. I thought it would be fun to use their historical design style to illustrate our current adventures into unexplored territory. So here’s my hand-drawn topographic map of Mars, complete with official landmark names and rover landing sites.

Not only is it beautiful to look out - it’s fun to explore. I never new that Mars’ small craters are officially named after small earth towns - here, Lutz labels them and (in caps) indicates their home country on earth. The large craters bear the names of famous scientists.

I highly recommend heading over to http://tabletopwhale.com/ to check out the higher resolution version.

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I’m very into this combination of space *and* time travel. -Emily

[thebeautifulcosmos]

[sinobug]

Pale Green Awlet (Burara gomata, Coeliadinae, Hesperiidae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu'er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese skippers on my Flickr site HERE…..

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Cygnus / Source / by astro/nature guy

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[just--space]

A view of the massive globular cluster NGC 1783 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, near Earths own Milky Way, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster is 160,000 light-years from Earth and as massive as 170,000 Suns. .

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[greater-than-the-sword]

Washington State Gothic

You’ve never seen Sasquatch, but you know someone who knows someone.

You stand on an empty street corner. There is no traffic. Rain pours down onto the hood of your jacket, and into your hair. You press the crosswalk button again. And again. And again.

Two towns over is a place with a name unpronounceable to man. You can speak it with ease.

Do not approach the rivers in October. They smell of death. Dying fish lie gasping on the shore. Others decay while they swim. This is as natural as the seasons, you are told.

A man climbs a tree. What does he know that you do not?

You haven’t seen the sun in weeks. Sometimes you forget that it exists.

Every day, when you look out the window, the blackberries are a little closer to your house.

There is an abandoned network of tunnels beneath the city streets. It is the ruins of the Old Town. Cold and empty, it is no longer fit even for the shady dealings of criminals - only the rats who gnaw the dust. And tourists.

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My submission for Gelatobear/Laughingbear’s Crabzine, a project that features over 100 AMAZING artists! You can download the whole thing for free HERE! It’s pretty darn cool!

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by rachel_thecat