![Fun fact: Trouvelot, the illustrator behind this (and other, similarly stunning images) is also the fool responsible for introducing the gypsy moth to America. He wanted to spin his own silk (probably, I think, to polish telescope lenses).
Astronomy hero, ecology demon.
Partial eclipse of the moon. Observed October 24, 1874. (1881-1882) (via NYPL Digital Gallery)
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Fun fact: Trouvelot, the illustrator behind this (and other, similarly stunning images) is also the fool responsible for introducing the gypsy moth to America. He wanted to spin his own silk (probably, I think, to polish telescope lenses).
Astronomy hero, ecology demon.
Partial eclipse of the moon. Observed October 24, 1874. (1881-1882)
(via NYPL Digital Gallery)
[via reblololo]
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We have some sad news
this morning from Mars
the imagination thinks
in phrases but the universe
is a long sentence
according to our instruments
the oldest songs are
breaking apart
like a puzzle in a basement
every so often
we detect the smell
of marshmallows where
there are none the end
cannot be found
in the middle that’s
a dream someone had
that our lives might
have meaning and not
just pop-up advertisements
but we have sad
news this morning
the dream has no
location or direction
and friends separated
by thousands of miles
are thinking of each
other simultaneously
but they have no idea
and we have no way
to reach themMatthew Rohrer
(Source: versedaily.org, via keepyourpebbles)
He wrote his own epitaph:
“‘Keep Looking Up’ was my life’s admonition; I can do little else in my present position.”
The land of illusion.
Ephraim Mose Lilien, from The new art of an ancient people; the work of Ephraim Mose Lilien, by M. S. Levussove, New York, 1906.
Via archive.org.
![Regiomontanus, Joannes: Kalendarium. Venetiis (Venice): Erhardus Ratdolt, 1482. Folio 28v, an instrument with volvelles, or paper wheels, which can be manipulated to show the motion of the moon. Sp Coll BD7-f.13 (item 1 of 4 bound together).
by University of Glasgow Library
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Regiomontanus, Joannes: Kalendarium. Venetiis (Venice): Erhardus Ratdolt, 1482. Folio 28v, an instrument with volvelles, or paper wheels, which can be manipulated to show the motion of the moon. Sp Coll BD7-f.13 (item 1 of 4 bound together).
[from keepyourpebbles, via yama-bato]
- John Roderick, “Galaxy’s End.” Live at the the Triple Door, 8 Jul 2010.
Apparently, he has a secret store of doomed astronaut songs.
“The Star Festival: Love of the Sky,” by Aya Kato.
There’s a beautiful story connected with this image, which is retold every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. This year, that festival falls on August 16.
It’s also the legend that provided the name for the first book of The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, called Bridge of Birds. (Highly recommended.)
“In November 1799 this meteor shower was observed at full moon off the coast of Florida by Andrew Ellicott. He wrote: In every instant the meteors were as numerous as the stars. The storm of the Leonids of 1799 was a key event with the discovery of the 33 years lasting period of the Leonids. This illustration appeared 1872 in the book The Midnight Sky by Edward Dunkin.”
(Image via NASA, caption source; courtesy of Mme. Ghoul, who has ever been a true friend to me.)
after Ann Druyan
I send for you my heartbeat,
the rhythms of my latest dream.
You are just now finding the frozen clicks
of muscles, cooling like just-parked cars.
Through endless fields of fire and dust,
we send whale song, one noisy kiss.
Every other romance
is nothingness now, every whale
a great cage of bone and blue air.
But fast to you, bright Ophiuchus,
one whispered love is dancing.Voyager Project poetry from www.thingswrittendown.com
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