We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
The Most Astounding Fact by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.
When you take something great, like the musings of the mind of Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, and combine it with something else great, like stunning images of life and wonder on and off of Earth … you get this.
Yeah, I came.
Life, the Universe and Everything
You Are Here print series designed by Mike Gottschalk :: via society6.com
Time Lapse Images of Earth at Night Taken From the International Space Station
Not bad pictures for someone traveling 7,706 meters per second, eh?
(Source: britneys-unicorn)
Space: You Are Here poster series by Mike Gottschalk
Star trails swirl through candy-colored auroras in a sweet new view of Sugar Lake in British Columbia, Canada, released this week.
Taken in July, the long-exposure picture illustrates how stars seem to rotate around what’s known as the celestial north pole, an imaginary point in the sky closest to the star Polaris—the dot of light at top left—that seems to intersect Earth’s axis of rotation.