The Atom: Part 5 Of 5 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) Episode 6: Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still, Cosmos:

astrophile

(noun) Astrophile is known as a person who loves the stars and everything to do with astronomy. Consider them amateur astronomists.  (via wordsnquotes)

You be careful, because your song is ending, sir. It is returning, it is returning through the dark. And then Doctor... Oh, but then... He will knock four times.

Carmen, Planet of the Dead

i swear to god if the day comes where i have to ring my service provider and ask for the fanfiction internet package i will literally die I’m tapping out i hate the world

Flat to Fact

Neil deGrasse Tyson released a diss track titled “Flat to Fact” to counteract B.o.B.’s claim that the earth was flat and that Mr. Tyson needed to “loosen his vest”. Of course it is set to the beat of Drake’s 2015 diss track Back to Back.

Bad move B.o.B…. you’ve unleashed the Tyson!

“The Martian” ~retro-futurism

The complete aesthetic of this blog.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Stormy seas in Sagittarius

A reminder that NASA isn’t the only space agency

I have seen many “Space achievements 2015” articles and posts leaving international accomplisments completely out, so here are some of them: 

1. A new type of basaltic rock on the moon was found by Chinese robotic lander.

China National Space Administration’s Chang’e-3 landed on the Moon on 14 December 2013, becoming the first spacecraft to soft-land since the Soviet Union‘s Luna 24 in 1976.

2. On February 11, the European Space Agency, ESA, successfully launched on a suborbital trajectory and recovered an experimental wingless glider, IXV.

It became the first true “lifting body” vehicle, which reached a near-orbital speed and then returned back to Earth without any help from wings.

3. On December 9, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft succeeded entering orbit of Venus.

Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency’s Akatsuki is the first spacecraft to explore Venus since the ESA’s Venus Express reached the end of its mission in 2014.

4.  ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft detected oxygen ‘leaking’ from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the first time these molecules have been seen around a comet.

Rosetta spacecraft, the first to drop a lander (named Philae) on a comet, entered orbit around 67P in 2014 and continues to orbit the body. On June 13, European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, received signals from the Philae lander after months of silence.

5.  The Canadian Space Agency has provided NASA with a laser mapping system that will scan an asteroid that could potentially hit the Earth in about 200 years

6. The high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express captured this sweeping view from the planet’s south polar ice cap and across its cratered highlands and beyond.

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