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Ojos del Salar, Atacama Desert

Saturn Behind the Moon : What’s that next to the Moon? Saturn. In its monthly trip around the Earth – and hence Earth’s sky – our Moon passed nearly in front of Sun-orbiting Saturn earlier this week. Actually the Moon passed directly in front of Saturn from the viewpoints of a wide swath of Earth’s Southern Hemisphere. The featured image from Sydney, Australia captured the pair a few minutes before the eclipse. The image was a single shot lasting only 1/500th of a second, later processed to better highlight both the Moon and Saturn. Since Saturn is nearly opposite the Sun, it can be seen nearly the entire night, starting at sunset, toward the south and east. The gibbous Moon was also nearly opposite the Sun, and so also visible nearly the entire night – it will be full tomorrow night. The Moon will occult Saturn again during every lap it makes around the Earth this year. via NASA

Squidolus [Day:1022 Hour:0]

A Moon Dressed Like Saturn

Image Credit: Francisco Sojuel

Sometimes… there’s more than meets the eye. 👀 You’re looking at two very different takes on an iconic image. ⁣

Human eyes can see only a small portion of the range of radiation given off by the objects around us. We call this wide array of radiation the electromagnetic spectrum, and the part we can see visible light.

In the first image, researchers revisited one of Hubble Space Telescope’s most popular sights: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. Here, the pillars are seen in infrared light, which pierces through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar — but just as amazing — view of the pillars. ⁣ ⁣ The entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The image on the bottom is the pillars in visible light.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team⁣

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COSMOS: Possible Worlds 2020

“Stellar nebulae or nebulous stars.” An introduction to astronomy. 1868. Internet Archive

Constellations. A fourteen weeks course in descriptive astronomy. 1870.

Internet Archive

Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud

Even star systems have identity crises. 🤷⁣ ⁣ According to data from observatories like our @nasachandraxray, a double star system has been rapidly flipping between two alter egos: a low-mass X-ray binary and a millisecond pulsar. Astronomers found this volatile double system in a dense collection of stars known as Terzan 5.⁣ ⁣ The first image from @NASAHubble shows Terzan 5 in optical light. Swipe to see the new image where low, medium and high-energy X-rays detected by Chandra are colored red, green and blue respectively. Click the link in bio for more. ⁣ ⁣

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Cygnus Skyscape

Squidolus [Day:979 Hour:12]

Lunar phase. General Science. 1925.

Internet Archive

I love coming across a novel gif, more so if it’s a space related one. 

Sure, it’s not even remotely attempting to be to scale, but it can’t, so why try and pretend. 

Still, there’s plenty to learn from these small scale animations, the order of the planets, how the inner planets circle the sun more times than the further out ones. Great little animation, and worthy of a few moments entertainment.

ps.. The planets all align around every 5200 years ! Just in case you were wondering, The next one is due in May 6, 2492 ! Mark it down in your calendar so you don’t forget :) 

by doing what you love, you inspire and awaken the hearts of others.

“music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” - oscar wilde

same homoerotic energy

revisiting some of my old sketches and book notes inspired by leonardo da vinci.

Finding worn books and buildings

dark academia vintage ephemera I received in the mail today

the year 2020

I would not wish any companion in the world but you. — William Shakespeare

I hate that people can make you feel as if what you say does not matter because it does matter so much; your words, your thoughts and everything that is going on in your mind deserve to be heard. It is not okay when people treat you as if what you say is not important enough and leave you thinking that you should not talk at all. I hate that people can make you feel this way - because I cling to every word you say, to every tale that comes out of that beautiful mouth and is created in that wonderful brain. Your words and your thoughts, they matter so much.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

— Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

Everyone who gets really into Greek mythology either ends up worshipping the gods, studying classics, gay or somehow all three at once

Remember, remember

The fifth of November

The gunpowder treason and plot

I know of no reason

Why the gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.                                                                           

But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, killed and forgotten. But 400 years later an idea can still change the world. I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I’ve seen people kill in the name of them and die defending them. But you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it or hold it. Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man. A man that made me remember the fifth of November. A man that I will never forget. - V for Vendetta.

A collection of some of my favorite random panels from the V for Vendetta graphic novel

But then something happened. It happened to me just as it happened to you.

‘There are no coincidences, only the illusion of coincidences.’

V for Vendetta (2005) dir. James McTeigue