Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the nebula V838 Monocerotis with its light echo from the red supergiant star in the center. Image taken in 2004.
Sun Ra (1914 - 1993) … pointing towards the celestial majesty that was to come.
space feeling / cosmic equation / time travel absurdism / Space Is The Place
Afrofuturism: Mixing contemporary black culture with the ancient world and looking at it through a cosmic kaleidoscope. Sun Ra created it. All roads lead to Saturn.
Despite the retromaniacal culture we now inhabit, Sun Ra imagined the future, offered a utopia, feared not death, lived fantastically.
Carola Schapals aka Carola Schapals Malerei (German, b. 1954, Wilhelmshaven, Germany) - 1: Long - Term View, 2017 2: Shining Glasshouse, 2019 3: In The Green Middle Of Nowhere, 2017, Paintings: Oil on Canvas
The soaring pillar is 9.5 light-years, or about 57 trillion miles, high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the nearest star. Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen that reside in chaotic neighborhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas. The tower may be a giant incubator for those newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars (off the top of the image) is eroding the pillar.
Congratulations Sonequa Martin-Green for winning Best Actress in Streaming Presentation at the 45th Saturn Awards!
Congratulations to Doug Jones for his Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in Streaming Presentation, and Star Trek: Discovery for Best Streaming Science Fiction, Action & Fantasy Series!
Ancient Egyptian scarab collection, made out of glazed steatite, faience, glass, ivory, other semi-precious stones and gold,
length from 1-3 cm. They date to 2nd and 1st millennia BC. Now in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Cassini captured Saturn’s icy moon Dione floating in front of Saturn & the rings, which are seen nearly edge on, casting shadows on the cloud tops. by MistWeaver80
