Aww Nasa Has A Page For Space Technology Terms You Can Use In Science Fiction

from richard siken's "anyway"

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Cosmonaut Ivan Vagner obtained this image of the comet NEOWISE a few hours ago from the International Space Station. He says that the dust tail looks very good from there. It is worth enlarging the image.

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wheres that picture of like the performers at the bolshoi or somewhere reading about gagarin going into space during intermission while all still in costume

“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”

— Terry Pratchett (via hot-elf)

Williamina Fleming, phaedra0846, (notebook), 1887 [Project PHaEDRA. John G. Wolbach Library, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]

drunken attempts to capture the night sky over møn, denmark

“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.

gaia by luke jerram

i was reading the wikipedia article on US territories when i found this incredibly ominous sentence