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aamukherjee A Slice of Entropie -
alchymista Alchymista -
crownedrose Fading Like A Dead Star -
expose-the-light Quarks to Quasars -
kenobi-wan-obi CWL -
abluegirl A Blue Girl -
perscientiamlibertas A Matter of the Most Pleasant Fraternal Confidence
Navid Baraty captured the wonder of the Times Square crowds as they watched the Curiosity rover landing.
second photo is pretty much my face when ever the full moon is out.
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CARL SAGAN, ASTRONAUT. One of the one-hour drawings I’ve been doing, available for purchasing by you right here. All the ones thus far are here. Subject suggestion for this one was “Carl Sagan.”
I spent a fair bit of extra time on it, because it was for a friend. Weird fact: though I’ve been a lifelong science guy (or as much of a science guy a high school dropout cartoonist really can be) I’d never seen Cosmos until this. I watched the first episode, and it was 1000% crazier than I expected (in a good/weird way).
Spica, Mars and Saturn
A beautiful conjunction between three celestial bodies with different colors.
Spica is striking blue, Mars is reddish/orange and Satrun a pale yellow.By Luis Argerich
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Liu Yang, China’s first female astronaut
It might not be a giant step for mankind, but Saturday’s launch of a piloted space capsule known as Shenzhou-9 marks China’s breakthrough into the exclusive club once made up only of the United States and Russia. And as far as womankind is concerned, there is another first. One of the three astronauts in the capsule is a woman, 33-year-old Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman in space.
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John Glenn on the cover of Life magazine, February 2, 1962
The photo, a portrait of Glenn in his space helmet, appeared on Life’s February 2, 1962 issue — 50 years ago this week. It wasn’t until 9:47 am EST on February 20, after a number of delays, that Glenn’s “Friendship 7” Mercury space capsule was thrown into space atop a new Atlas rocket. When he returned to Earth four hours, fifty-five minutes, and twenty-three seconds later, Glenn was the greatest American aviation hero since Charles Lindbergh.
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A very rare humpback whale that’s entirely white has been spotted near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
The whale’s thought to be a few weeks old and was spotted by a local man.
He said: “I couldn’t believe my eyes, and I just grabbed my camera. Then the white calf approached my boat, seeming to want to check us out.”
White whales are rare - the reef’s rep says there are only 10-15 among the 10,000-15,000 humpback whales living along Australia’s east coast.
And it’s even rarer for them to be completely white like this one.
Robert Oppenheimer, 1963 (via cec.uchile.cl)
