Astronomy 🪐 🔭

“my battery is low and it’s getting dark” is so hauntingly human, so crushingly lonely. I can’t articulate the deep, profound ache that sentence evokes. It’s acceptance and defeat and terror and sadness all at once, all from one tiny machine we asked to explore the stars for us.

Views of Earth and Intrepid, Apollo 12, 14 Nov 1969.

Australia vs Pluto

via reddit

Farhad Moshiri (b.1963) - Falling Star. 2014. Acrylic beads and crystal on canvas on board.

Strange and massive objects plow near the moon, captured on amateur film from Quebec, Canada. (26.03.2020).

A small step for man…

(all my gifs are here)

Tribute to Katherine Johnson (African-American mathematician aka ‘the computer’) who helped with calculating the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. SOURCE                          

so nasa opened up applications to be an astronaut and all u have to have is a degree in the “right” field like ok nasa i see how it is u think an english lit major cant go to space well then tell me whos gonna analyze homoerotic subtext in space??? i kno theres homoerotic subtext in space ive seen star wars AND star trek