Viridarium Novum - a Little Book of Nature
‘New little book of flowers, in it all kinds of beautiful flowers, also fruits and little animals, which are very useful to painters, silk embroiderers, goldsmiths and similar artists and are especially useful for travelling. Engraved in copperplate in honor of all art-lovers, published in Nuremberg 1652 in the publishing house of Paulus Fürst, art dealer.
Elena Arcangeli (1972) - L'attesa
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Voyager 1 has crossed into interstellar space. What happens now?
As we pass the outer limits of the Solar System, we are faced with a vast emptiness. Beyond our home system lies the great mysteries of deep space. Here, the distances are so great as to boggle the mind. The nearest star is four light years away. That means that it would take four years to get there if you could travel at the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second. We can only look out into that emptiness with our telescopes and be humbled at the wonder of it all.
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hillaryclintonasking the real questions
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i literally just SCReamed “OH my god” in my house
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Summer: To be alone is the only natural state. To be dependent is to rob yourself of agency. There is nothing I can’t do
Autumn: I’m sorry, I know it’s late but this is very important, I haven’t slept at all since the last time I stayed in your bed, what do you think this means?
Winter: I am in love and it’s exactly like that dream I had when I was 12 in which I cut off my own head to wake up but it didn’t work
Spring: This isn’t enough
Rings and Moons Circling Uranus, taken by Hubble space telescope.
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Close Encounter with M44 : On Monday, January 26, well-tracked asteroid 2004 BL86 made its closest approach, a mere 1.2 million kilometers from our fair planet. That’s about 3.1 times the Earth-Moon distance or 4 light-seconds away. Moving quickly through Earth’s night sky, it left this streak in a 40 minute long exposure on January 27 made from Piemonte, Italy. The remarkably pretty telescopic field of view includes M44, also known as the Beehive or Praesepe star cluster in Cancer. Of course, its close encounter with M44 is only an apparent one, with the cluster nearly along the same line-of-sight to the near-earth asteroid. The actual distance between star cluster and asteroid is around 600 light-years. Still, the close approach to planet Earth allowed detailed radar imaging from NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California and revealed the asteroid to have its own moon. via NASA
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the universe is tearing itself apart at an obscene and terrifying rate. i stayed up until 5 to bring you this important message: I’ve worked hard, and I’m chagrined to confirm, that the universe is fleeing from itself
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