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When I heard the learned astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wandered off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Looked up in perfect silence at the stars. - Walt Whitman

[lakevida]

griffith observatory / hubble’s ultra deep field

[latenightpersonality]

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Moon and Venus by frankastro

[mysticaldarknight]

Moon, Jupiter and its 4 Moons.

[sixpenceee]

Amazing photo of totality in Oregon by photographer Jasman Lion Mander.

[sci-universe]

Every Photo From NASA’s Apollo Missions Are Now on Flickr

The Project Apollo Archive uploaded more than 8,400 high-resolution images the astronauts took during NASA’s Apollo Missions of the 1960s and 70s. The collection includes every photo shot with the Hasselblad cameras on the lunar surface, from Earth and lunar orbit, as well as during the journey between the two. All the photos are unprocessed versions of the original scans.

[poreezayas]

The Language of the Universe

[organicst-blog]

[nemfrog]

[clawmarks]

“Saturn, the lightest of the planets in proportion to its size, would float in water (if there were an ocean big enough to hold it!).”

Illustration from Our country and its resources - 1917 - via Internet Archive

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Castor and Pollux

by: Joseph Brimacombe

[jamesreads]

a little wind can lift a big spirit

[dappermouth]

- Dog star, burning through a vast black sky -

In memory of Laika: a greater friend to mankind than mankind was to her.

[traverse-our-universe]

Moon and Venus over Chile | European Southern Observatory on Flickr

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[clawmarks]

Illustration (edited) from L'astronomie pour tous - 1891 - via Internet Archive

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