astronomy
Inkspot
Oh, you know. Just your typical pen-and-ink sunspot:
That’s from The Story of the Heavens. Innit great?
Explosions in the sky
I love constellations. Therefore, I love this post from Liz Danzico. It’s got me thinking: Isn’t the spangling of stars in the sky just basically random noise onto which we’ve projected patterns and then stories? And if that’s been successful—and it toootally has—doesn’t it imply that you could do the same with just about any kind of random noise? What sort of weird wacky stuff could you spread across your desk to tell stories with?
Rings of dust
You could make movies and tell stories your whole life with just these pictures of Saturn as your muse. It’s not quite just the pictures; it’s also the ingenuity they imply. We sent a camera out there!
Saturn is extra-great because it’s majestic and geometric, but actually pretty human-scale, at least compared to those big blobs of gas the size of ten solar systems. Up close, it’s surprisingly textured. And it has all those great moons!
But really, this one pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? Like Prometheus, we all just want our passing to disturb the F ring.
Via @MelodyMcC.