۞۞ :One·light·year·from·you: ۞۞

"Somos polvo de estrellas, somos el medio para que el Cosmos se conozca a sí mismo, una mota solitaria en la inmensa oscuridad cósmica. El nitrógeno en tu ADN, el calcio en tus dientes, el hierro en tu sangre, el carbón en tu cuerpo.. Todos, elementos creados en el interior de estrellas colapsando, creadas hace millones de años antes de que llegaran a la tierra y darnos vida"

[spaceisart]

[gypsyastronaut]

[deseos-de-la-via-lactea]

[spacettf]

NGC 3184 by John.R.Taylor (www.cloudedout.squarespace.com) on Flickr.

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Voyager 1 Jupiter

Ian Regan

[spacettf]

the eye of the dragon by Bernal Saborio G. (berkuspic) on Flickr.

[infinity-imagined]

Coccolithophores are single celled eukaryotic phytoplankton that synthesize intricate exoskeletons from crystals of calcium carbonate.  The functions of these coccoliths are unknown, and may include buoyancy, osmotic regulation, protection from UV light, predation, or mechanical shock.  When nutrient and light conditions are optimal, coccolithophores can form massive plankton blooms that are visible from space.  Large numbers of these organisms can accumulate on the ocean floor forming chalk deposits such as the White Cliffs of Dover. 

[vhspositive]

[realsurrealfeel]

“Inner Space” by Carlos Quevedo

[howling-science]

Steven Vincent Johnson

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Eta Carinae

[s-c-i-guy]

Great Physicists and their Blackboards

[startswithabang]

Mostly Mute Monday: A final view from the Moon

“From December 11th to the 14th, 1972, astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt set foot on the lunar surface, becoming the last two human beings to do so as part of the Apollo program.”

It’s been nearly 43 years since humans have set foot on the Moon, and yet we’ve never forgotten what it looks like. Yet nothing that anyone can describe — either about what it was like or what we’ve done while we were there — can take the place of what our final, highest-at-the-time resolution views can tell us. Go experience the whole thing for yourself.

[infinity-imagined]

Images of Saturn taken by Cassini and processed by Kevin Gill.

[magictransistor]

Thomas Wright. An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe. 1750. 

[retroscifiart]

Images of the cosmos from the late 1950s and early 60s. Most are from the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. Don’t get me wrong, I love all the high definition and detailed images coming out of Hubble and similar telescopes today, but there is something about these old photos. What they lacked in detail and resolution they made up for with wonder and mystery. Can you imagination how mind blowing these pictures would have been when they first came out of the developing tank in the 50′s?

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[the-cinder-fields]

Bernard Picart, The Chaos or the Origin of the World, 1733