#omg space

[okaisama]

haha.

My current hyperfixtation is space and its super exciting spending the last 45 hours watching youtube theories and docs.

[sailtheplains]

bahahah when you are playing FF7 while listening to music on your computer, killing bad guys with ridiculous overkill. 

And then Cid nails the timing. because of course he does.

[moonlitmyth-archive]

❝And if you look over there, you'll see Corvus.❞

Stargazing Starters | always accepting!

“So I see, though it’s Zhu Que in China, and Te Manu in Polynesia.” Being an astronomy buff, constellations were something that Margaret didn’t need someone else to point out to her, and she might have guessed that Jack knew that.

[moonlitmyth-archive]

[I sure do have good thread-tracking tags]

[galaxybuilt]

SPACEX LANDED THEIR ROCKET ON THEIR ROBOT BARGE

THEY DID IT

[galaxybuilt]

I just submitted my application to be considered as an astronaut candidate. There is no place in your application to upload your emotions about space

[galaxybuilt]

All the confirmed planets from Kepler, to date!  Color is surface temperature, dashed lines are the orbits of our own planets.

[uicspecialcollections]

A Comet Textbook From 300 B.C.

NASA has some nice historical comet stuff up on its Deep Impact Mission page ("Pope Calixtus III excommunicated Halley's Comet as an instrument of the devil"), and I really like this: a 2300-year-old piece of Chinese silk upon which astronomers documented the difference between cometary forms ("long-tailed pheasant stars," "broom stars," etc) and linked them to specific types of disaster. It's part of the Mawangdui Silk Texts, which were sealed in a tomb from 168 B.C. and not discovered until the '70s: don't you wish there was some way to do that with everything we're fussing about now?

Did you know comets could get excommunicated? Check out some of the historical documents in NASA's collection!