#astronomy quotes

[a-typical]

The universe is not empty. We are very aware that we are bound to the Earth. The Earth is bound to the Sun and the Sun to the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is bound to the neighboring galaxy Andromeda, both residing in the Virgo supercluster of galaxies. And the Virgo supercluster senses all the other galaxies and all the accumulated energy in our observable universe. So we don’t live in a flat, empty spacetime.

Astronauts also don’t float in empty space. They can see the Earth spin and the Sun roll along. They are falling and weightless, but on a path we’ve been accustomed to calling an orbit, an orbit around the Earth in orbit around the Sun in a glacially long orbit around the galaxy. Their paths aren’t straight. Their paths are curved into a circle around the Earth sewn into the circle around the Sun sewn into the path around the galaxy, because free-fall paths are curved when the sky isn’t empty. Because space is curved by the presence of matter and energy.

Black Hole Survival Guide — Janna Levin

[dedi-ashour]

جَاءَتْ مُعَذِّبَتِي فِي غَيْهَبِ الغَسَقِ

كَأنَّهَا الكَوْكَبُ الدُرِيُّ فِي الأُفُقِ

فَقُلْتُ نَوَّرْتِنِي يَا خَيْرَ زَائِرَةٍ

أمَا خَشِيتِ مِنَ الحُر��ّاسِ فِي الطُّرُقِ

فَجَاوَبَتْنِي وَ دَمْعُ العَيْنِ يَسْبِقُهَا

مَنْ يَرْكَبِ البَحْرَ لا يَخْشَى مِنَ الغَرَقِ.

،، 💛💜🪐 ،،

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الزهرة في ضوء الغسق ،، باليرمو ،، إيطاليا

by Teresa Molinaro| Aspra, Palermo, Italy

[corpsehusband-eric]

[llsadgirl]

when I’m alone at night, staring at the stars and hear the crickets, I feel at home. I feel at peace. it’s like the stars and me are connected, like we understand each other and they take away all my pain, all my feelings and replace them with calmness and peace instead.

- II.sadgirl

Picture is mine. App is nocturne. iPhone 11.

[starstark]

I think I’ve finally come to terms with being a speck of dust in this infinite universe, after all it’s the very small things that help create something big.

[without-ado]

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

l photo: Sara Hunt l quote: Carl Sagan

[retrogamingblog2]

[the-wolf-and-moon]

“Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; You have a right to be here.”

— Max Ehrmann

[bookishmarta]

Flying in a dream,

stars by the pocketful

[thelyinggrapevine]

Astronomy tower, late at night toward the end of the school year [1976]

James: What's your favorite sound?

Regulus: I like the sound of silence a lot.

James: *goes quiet*

Regulus, mumbling: I also like the sound of your voice, too.

James, clueless: Huh? What did you say, I wasn't listening *was too busy looking for Reg's star*

Regulus: Absolutely nothing, you're hearing things.

James: Whatever you say, mi estrella.

Regulus: ?

James, staring enraptured: You're adorable.

Regulus, blushing: Shut,, the fuck up???

[regeditt]

*remus & sirius finding a good make-out spot at the library*

remus: what’s that noise?

*regulus underneath james with his shirt half undone*

james: oh!! fancy seeing you here...!!

reg: *waves* hey

sirius: *grabs a book, aims it at regulus*

remus: no, please, not the book—

[a-typical]

Chances are surpassingly bad that you are in free fall right now. Chances are also surpassingly bad that you are in a flat space, since there is no such place anywhere in our galaxy...

Lying in bed we feel heavy. We say gravity pulls us down. But we have it all wrong. Totally inverted. What you feel is not gravity but rather the atoms in the mattress pushing against your atoms. If only the bed would get out of your way, and the floor, and all the lower floors, you would fall, and falling is the purest uninterrupted experience of gravity. Only in the fight against gravity do you feel its pull, an inertia, a resistance, a heaviness. Give in to gravity, and the feeling of a force disappears.

Black Hole Survival Guide — Janna Levin

[dedi-ashour]

WOoOoW such a powerful aurora!

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🩷💚🧡❄️💫🔭🧑🏻‍🚀🤩

[sciencemuser-andgirl]

SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE

Oppenheimer (2023) // Scientific American x // Britannica x // Saturn Sounds x // The Realm of Daphnis x // Youtube x // Scientific American x // Musica Universalis x

[mcversipellis]

I wanna hold the hand inside you

I wanna take the breath that's true

I look to you and I see nothing

I look to you to see the truth

You live your life, you go in shadows

You'll come apart and you'll go blind

Some kind of night into your darkness

Colors your eyes with what's not there

PS I’ll be making prints with this boys next month along with other marauders era prints, can’t wait to show you all✨🥲

[without-ado]

...Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

l Webb & Hubble via NASA 360 l Carl Sagan "Cosmos"