lifebalance:

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.” — Alan Watts

the-rx:

Paths of Venus across the Sun’s Face, illustration by Richard A. Proctor 1883

n-a-s-a:

Orcus of the Outer Solar System

Credit: M. Brown (Caltech), C. Trujillo (Gemini), D. Rabinowitz (Yale), Samuel Oschin Telescope 

oxygyrus:

another star map

ikenbot:

In the Center of Reflection Nebula NGC 1333

The dust is so thick in the center of NGC 1333 that you can hardly see the stars forming. Conversely, the very dust clouds that hide the stars also reflects their optical light, giving NGC 1333’s predominantly blue glow the general designation of a reflection nebula.

hazor:

Timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death
[High Res picture]

solar eclipse 2012