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Amazing writeup about the typography in the original Alien movie.

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Amazing photo of comet 67p from the rosetta flickr page.

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It is theorised that the Greeks started the tradition of putting candles on cakes to honour the moon goddess Artemis, the round cakes symbolised the moon, and the candles were the moonlight

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A sky time lapse that shows the earth rotating instead of the stars. An almost nauseating perspective highlighting our insignificance. 

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This year's pumpkin. Aaro the rat is very proud of it.

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Gorgeous shot of the lunar far side and the Earth, taken yesterday by the chinese experimental unmanned lunar mission Chang'e 5-T1's solar array monitoring camera.

Seeing the far side is so unusual it's almost discomforting. 

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So, I've got some pet rats now.

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Ingmar Bergman buying ice cream. 

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'One curious feature on the Moon's surface are "lunar swirls", wisp-like regions that are whiter than surrounding areas and that, until recently, astronomers could not explain. But one team of physicists recently showed that these areas are protected by weak magnetic fiel...

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Dr. Maya Angelou speaks explicitly about her experience with the stigma and shame of being a sex worker/former sex worker.

"I had a very rough time at 18… and I went on a national show and a woman did the interview who I knew slightly [she smiles softly here and raises her eyebrows] and she said “Maya Angelou! How does it feel to know you’re the first Black woman to have a national bestseller non fiction, your second book nominated for the Pulitzer, and to know that at 18 you were a prostitute?” 

And it was like a kick in the stomach! However, there is this: You must always be careful who you call out. [She smiles very broadly here and nods to emphasise the word “careful”] When she said that, I said, “Ahhh but there are many ways to prostitute one’s self and you would know about that, wouldn’t you dear?”  

Whereupon they went to break, [The interviewer laughs heartily] Yes, whereupon her co-host came and concluded the interview.”

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James Irwin works at the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the first Apollo 15 lunar surface EVA at the Hadley-Apennine landing site. This view is looking northeast, with Mons Hadley (which has a height of 4.6 km and a maximum diameter of 25 km at its base) in the background Lacking the usual visual cues such as reference objects and atmospheric effects, judging distances on the moon is difficult, despite its size it easy to see it as just a small hill.

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The Moon, May 1969.

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Exciting times.

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View of Earth from Apollo 13

(Image Credit: NASA) 

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A leaf chameleon from Madagascar on top of a match head. The three part BBC documentary on Madagascar is quite amazing. Highly recommended.

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Soviet moon lander prototype. 

The LK - Russian: Lunniy Korabl- (Лунный корабль—"lunar ship") was a Soviet lunar lander and counterpart of the American Lunar Module (LM). The LK was to have landed up to two cosmonauts on the Moon. It completed development and was test flown successfully in Earth orbit, but never reached the Moon because development of the N1 rocket, required to take it to the Moon, was unsuccessful.