Space dream catcher

Even though the most beautiful vistas of the night sky happen away from the city lights, those living in the urban areas can still get a taste of the brightest stars available on a clear night.

During this time of the year you can begin your journey around midnight by looking up towards the north-western horizon to spot the seven stars which form the conspicuous Big Dipper asterism, also known as the Plough or the Saptarishi (The Seven Rishi), part of the Ursa Major constellation. 

You can easily use it to spot Polaris, the actual northern pole star on Earth, part of the Little Dipper, or Ursa Minor, constellation. How?  

Just draw an imaginary line between the Big Dipper’s pointer stars, Dubhne and Merak, extend it out about five times and you will arrive next to Polaris. All the heavens rotate counterclockwise very near this point due to the rotation of the Earth. The stars that make up the handle, other than Polaris, are difficult to see in the city.

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Mariano Peccinetti / Collage al Infinito ( II )

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Vulpis Polaris

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Since I’m a sensation fancier

When I am broke and need to satisfy my appetite for travel,

A light solution with no additional expenses 

Is to turn on my inner radio and tune into the most distant radio station:

Radio Antarctica, transmitting from a crystal desert.

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This far far away radio

Broadcasting beams of whale songs across continents

Confirms that in my brain the scheme is different than I thought:

First, that my brain occasionally exists, 

Poring on details such as a flower-head in yellow butter 

And it can even count the number of the petals!

The second part is simply devastating:

There is no line to mark, from left to right, the hemispheres

And in this context, Huston, we have problems,

‘Cause I can’t stay away from instantaneous imagination

I’m merging space and time in one dimension

Creating confused stares in your mind’s ears.

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Same illnesses persist inside my heart, beyond religion,

Where I’m a listener in a state of conflict with my replicating fingers,

So to question this sensation of typing empty spaces fast

Or killing predicates in phrases, is nonsense! 

If letters sink, drowning along the subject, 

It’s not just for the sake of art, but for myself

To such a great extent that I 

Can launch in Space my self-made rockets.

So it’s a must! And to disrupt my rhymes’ fragility, 

Is basically called: kick in the butt!

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?? Alas, Is there something in my wireless as wild as sex?

Is this the reason why my mind finds mammoth seals hot merchandise?

How should I know?! I’m not a rolling stone…

To skip the criticism of citizens I follow chronicles of the Apollo 11,

by counterbalancing effects of human nature with just a line:

Before you speak of moon dust, quote: “I wish you could smell some.”

Thus, stop being so abstract, or otherwise, I’ll write a science fiction Poem of the Cid,

In our times. So let me be and nothing else.

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Out there in the distance of my central nervous system,

DJs are not allowed to play music,

Because illusions along the frozen waves of the Antarctic Ocean,

in monitors flow optical.

Only fairies and operators spin the records in my inner ears

Like circus acrobatics with no mercy

straight from the Source at any early hours,

Mostly nocturnal. And when we talk about emotions,

Ice crushers aren’t jokes, but fire:

One electrical stormy-bit per 1/4 second,

With flashlights in the background, bends my bones.

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Of course I know I’m just a box - of resonance - 

For ultrasounds of submarines that disappear in clouds

And sink in other worlds.

And even if it’s strange for me to say it,

Because I fly in Cosmos when I get the chance, 

Sometimes I think that being only human

- although it’s just a joke - it’s not that bad.

But am I not! I never take the lifts or climb the stairs,

because on Mars, which is too far away, they’re ephemeris.

So, I choose stars.

( Gif belongs to Ignacio Torres )

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Planet Travel Posters Sets Mars & Venus by Ron Guyatt

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The Project:

Space tourism is still a long ways off, but it’s not hard to imagine that someday, tourists will visit the natural geological landmarks of other worlds much like they tour the Grand Canyon, Mount Everest or Ayers Rock. Each of these great tourist destinations needs a classic retro travel poster to entice visitors. Until the day people settle off world and make their own destinations many of these may be the places that people will want to travel too. I hope that these posters can inspire people to think beyond our world to the limitless possibilities of the Universe.

Posters Available at My Store

I want to go to there. And there. And there.

I propose we add the Geysers of Enceladus and the Great Crater of Mimas to the itinerary.

Serialul ‘poza din lift’ cu fața din vis continuă.

Matt Molloy expresses time-lapse and movement in a still frame, merging thousands of photos into a single image. The result is simply stunning.

The apparent angle subtended by the Sun and a planet, as seen from Earth, is known as elongation. Tonight Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation when the innermost planet of the solar system lies 24° east of the Sun and appears 10° high in the west-northwest 45 minutes after sunset, marking its peak evening altitude during 2013. 
This is the best time to try to view Mercury since it stays so close to the Sun and doesn’t usually climb very high above the horizon.
If you view the innermost planet with a telescope this evening, you’ll see that its 8”-diameter disk is nearly 40 percent lit.

As Above, So Below
Ellen Driscoll’s cosmic art can be found in NYC’s Grand Central Station. The greater mosaic-made Horoscope wheel features the 12 zodiac glyphs around the edge, and the smaller one shows the planetary spheres in their proper traditional order, from the Moon to Saturn.

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Amazing images from the orbit captured by Dutch astronaut André Kuipers

Creator of other worlds: Mariano Peccinetti / Collage al Infinito ( I )

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