Not much to say here except that I was reading this article and thought this photo was adorable.

Arch of Septimius Severus and the ruins of the Temples of Saturn and of Vespasian and Titus, Rome

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Venus orbits closer to the Sun than the Earth does, and on rare occasions our orbits align such that Venus passes directly in front of the Sun. The last time this happened was in 2004, and it happened again on June 5, 2012. Probably millions of photos of the event were taken, but one of my favorites is this view from the NASA/JAXA (Japanese Space Agency) Hinode spacecraft, just as Venus was fully entering the Sun’s disk. The Sun looks like a boiling cauldron with Venus silhouetted against it. The ring around the planet is from Venus’s thick atmosphere, scattering and bending the sunlight coming through from the other side.

The Best Astronomy Images of 2012

On March 28, 2012, photographer Helge Mortensen was in Tromso, Norway on a mission to capture the aurora borealis, the northern lights. He succeeded magnificently, taking this beautiful shot of the eerily-glowing green lights over the icy landscape. You can see the Moon, Venus, Jupiter, and the Pleaides cluster in the picture as the particles from the solar wind slam into Earth’s atmosphere, lighting up atoms of oxygen and nitrogen. I also like the water flowing in the bottom part of the shot; in the 10-second exposure it forms a soft, smooth surface. By coincidence, one part of it forms a pattern remarkably like a face, an aquatic Shroud of Turin. Can you spot it?

The Best Astronomy Images of 2012

Astrophotographer Stéphane Guisard took this remarkable picture of Orion rising over the Temple of Kukulkan in the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza. The temple is 30 meters (100 feet) high, a monument to the architectural savvy of the Maya. In Orion you can see the orange glow of Betelegeuse, bright blue Rigel, and the fuzzy pink glow of the Orion Nebula (below the belt), a star-forming nebula over 1,000 light years away.

The Best Astronomy Images of 2012

superseventies:

Jane Birkin wearing an organdy dress by Veneziano for Vogue Paris, March 1972. Photo by Jean-Jacques Bugat.

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sisterhimalaya:

odolnost:

drasticandfantastic:

Volantene elephant rescuing a friend from the river

are  you shitting me how cute is this

this is actually fantastic though

omg.

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landscaped:

Harvest time.

Photo series by Franz Schumacher

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folkthings:

Khmer women, Cambodia

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