Nimavenl - Nicole's Random Ramblings

This photo by Will Gater reminds me of a Vincent van Gogh painting. How cool and amazing and stunning and beautiful is the universe we live in?! Down below on earth, we fight and argue, we kill and destroy, we rape and pillage. Yet far above, far away from our little lives, there is the sun. Older than any of us, older than our earliest ancestors, even older than the planet we call home. Right now, I'm taking a moment to appreciate that big light in the sky, to look at this image and remind myself that compared to the sun, big and vast and old yet so immensely powerful, we are but babies. Here's a white-light solar filter pic of the sunspot causing all the excitement today (AR2371) http://t.co/4n3KJpbFmS pic.twitter.com/wFBX4JL0M9 — Will Gater (@willgater) June 19, 2015

Grijze lucht... Af en toe wat zonneschijn door het wolkendek heen... Ben benieuwd of we nog iets te zien krijgen! Zo ja, dan moet het er, volgens de website hemel.waarnemen.com ongeveer uitzien zoals op dit plaatje. Fingers crossed !

Just imagine having a bad day on Mercury... Some say men are from Mars and women are from Venus... Today I'm mighty glad that we (women!) migrated to earth a long, long time ago as a bad day lasting almost 117 days is so not my idea of fun!  How long does a day last elsewhere in the solar system? #Space #Astronomy pic.twitter.com/2zHD17wQEn — Upper Atmos (@UpperAtmos) February 21, 2015

Puts the briefness of human life into perspective. One year to Pluto is generations to us! ""Pluto will complete its first full orbit around the sun [since it's discovery] on Monday, March 23rd 2178" "Tell your kids to tell THEIR grandkids to throw Pluto a birthday." Post by I fucking love science .