Window To The Cosmos

fuck everything else happy birthday sputnik

HiPOD 20 Apr 2021: A Glorious Gully in Matara Crater

The largest dune gully here has had massive changes over the last six Mars years. Our goal is to obtain a fresh stereo pair and see if we can resolve the topographic changes. The crater was named after the town of Matara, Sri Lanka.

Enhanced color is less than 1 km; black and white is less than 5 km.  ID: ESP_065934_1300 date: 20 August 2020 altitude: 249 km NASA/JPL/UArizona

Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, James Whistler

hey i have a favor to ask from astronomers, can y'all put little krakens on the edges of maps of the observable universe to denote that we don't know what's past that

Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), XLVIII (1914)

gaia by luke jerram

1967 cover art by Jerome Podwil to A. Bertram Chandler’s The Road to the Rim

Cosmic border. Compton’s pictured encyclopedia. 1922. 

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