Nauticastro - The Overview Effect

NASA’s Most Shocking Image

This image is a 1.5… *BILLION* pixel photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy.

To view the image in all its glory go here.

NASA is the coolest thing that’s ever happened.

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

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 sun, the moon and the stars. Out-of-doors. v. 2. 1932.

Australia vs Pluto

via reddit

queer astronaut sticker

Cygnus Wall Region.

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 

“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)