Star Trail. Old French Fairy Tales. C.1920. Spot Illustration.

Northern lights photographed from space

i can’t wait for THIS etymology lesson with the aliens

Different chemicals in meteors produce different colors; the faster a meteor moves, the more intense the color may appear(x)

Beaver supermoon.

(November 15, 2024)

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

Milky Way And The Australian Pinnacles