thinkingimages: More Cepheid variables: This is a digital print of another of Hubbleโs photographic plates of Andromeda. He made it using the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, in 1924. Source: nautil.us
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dame-de-pique: Gabriel Lekegian – Vue des Pyramides, Eclipse du Soleil du 30 Aoรปt 1905
thinkingimages: The Great Nebula of Orion: This is a digital print of a photographic plate from the Ritchey 60-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, made in 1908. Source: nautil.us
detailedart: Rather unusual sky phenomenons depicted in The Book of Miracles, ca. 1552, by an unknown author-ess. And forgive me but a falling star with a very bad exhaust pipe, people fighting for the territory of a cloud dissolving into rain the next day, and three ovaries playing jump rope with a death rainbow.
blairwitchbaby: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)dir. Stanley Kubrickdop: John Alcott
humanoidhistory: Saturn, as seen from Titan, painted by Don Dixon, featured in Starlog, January 1977.
joshlien27โ:
humanoidhistory: Snapshots from the Apollo 17 mission, December 7-19, 1972. The camera was a Hasselblad 500EL 70mm. (via)
vangoghcore: by daniel_nimmervoll
retroscifiart: Sergio Macedo ‘Telefield’ from Heavy Metal Sept 1979
the-wolf-and-moon: Machholz and The Seven Sisters
bad-wolf: Nobodyโฆ nobody trusts anybody now, and weโre all very tired. THE THING (1982) dir. John Carpenter