Beaver Supermoon.

“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

"empowering women by sending katy perry to space for 2 minutes" shut the fuck up. samantha cristoforetti was the first female commander of the international space station and she became an astronaut because of star trek. and there is a real chance she is a kirk/spock shipper

NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

Futurama, Godfellas

"Now, when I'm found in a million years, people will know what the score was." - Bender

The plaque affixed to the side of the sides of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecrafts in 1972 & 1973. The Pioneer spacecrafts were the first anythings of human origin to be destined to leave our solar system. Both probes did a lot of research within our solar system before skedaddling off into infinity.

the rainbow: indigo

northern lights photographed from space

The night sky on Mars