What If Oxygen Is Poisonous And It Just Takes 75-100 Years To Kill Us?

Created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during it’s flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn. Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

Colors of the Polar Night

Hubble Space Telescope Images.

Book cover assignment for class, we had three short scifi stories to choose from and I chose Isaac Asimov’s “Nightfall”. 🔴🌌

on stories, leaving a mark, and wanting to be remembered

1. Jack Rackham in Black Sails s04e10 2. John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos. 3. Carl Sagan on Voyager’s Golden Record 4. Ada Limón, During the Impossible Age of Everyone. 5. Paleolithic handprints in Cueva de las Manos, Argentina 6. Sappho, If Not, Winter (translated by Anne Carson)

Masterpieces of Mesozoic Seas

Large Hubble Survey Confirms Link between Mergers and Supermassive Black Holes with Relativistic Jets by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

The Valley of Souls, La Paz, Bolivia

Hubble captured this image of Saturn in 2004, a view so sharp that some of the planet’s smaller rings are visible.

“Nightfall”, by Asimov and Silverberg

I haven’t picked a book apart in a while, so have some mildly-disjointed thoughts on Asimov & Silverberg’s 1989 novel, mostly focused on the somewhat-ropey astronomy, but looking at a few other things as well…

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