fer1972:

Somewhere near, but far in time by Megatruh

jeepers that’s pretty

seabois:

František Kobliha
A Fallen Star (1925)
woodcut

so beautiful

seabois:

Asbjornsen, Peter Christen and Moe, Jorgen. East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North. Kay Nielsen, illustrator. New York: George H. Doran, n.d. [1914].

the-star-stuff:

Heart of Orion Nebula
This wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), lying about 1350 light-years from Earth, was taken with the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The new telescope’s huge field of view allows the whole nebula and its surroundings to be imaged in a single picture and its infrared vision also means that it can peer deep into the normally hidden dusty regions and reveal the curious antics of the very active young stars buried there.

Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

fawn-lorn:

Ursa Major illustration (new version) for a book on Constellations I’m creating. I’m much happier with this version. ♥

http://fawnlorn.blogspot.com/

this is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen this past week.

nationalpost:

Mystery of oldest recorded supernova solved. In 185 A.D., Chinese astronomers noted a “guest star” that mysteriously appeared in the sky and stayed for about eight months. By the 1960s, scientists had determined that the mysterious object was the first documented supernova. Later, they pinpointed the object, known as RCW 86, as a supernova remnant located about 8,000 light-years away but remained puzzled at how the star’s spherical remains were larger than expected.

kristiloos:

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us: and it is in the unclouded night sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.  I had risen to my knees to pray for Mr. Rochester.  Looking up, I, with tear-dimmed eyes, saw the mighty milky-way.  Remembering what it was - what countless systems there swept space like a soft trace of light - I felt the might and strength of God.

- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre