#astrophotography
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.” – JOHN MUIR
( credit: Daniel Fleischhacker | @daniel_fleischhacker | daniel-photography.eu)
What a lucky shot! While astrophotographer Fritz Helmut Hemmerich was capturing an image of the Andromeda galaxy, a sand-sized rock from deep space crossed right in front of the camera creating this incredible green streak. Or it was just aliens.
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Bright blue stars scatter the sky over the Paranal Observatory in Chile as the spectacular central region of our Milky Way emerges above the horizon.
Image credit: ESO/B. Tafreshi
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The eclipse reaching totality at Smith Rock State Park in Oregon. Photo captured by Michael Shainblum
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“We all have a deep desire to know what exists out there, a desire so basic, so beautiful, so much fun, that it unites all mankind. The most exciting discoveries will provide answers to questions we do not yet know how to ask, and they concern objects we have not yet imagined.” – astrophysicist John N. Bahcall
(Image credit: Alex Covert @axleimages)
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Behold the Universe(APOD/NASA)
Image Credit & Copyright: A. Garrett Evans;Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
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“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”- Ray Bradbury
(Image credit: Marc Leatham. Check out his work at 500px.com/marcleatham)
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Absolutely love this shot from the extremely talented Nicholas Buer. Reminds me of this awe inspiring quote from physicist Brian Greene about the challenge humanity faces to understand the cosmos:
“We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics. The story is among the grandest – the unfolding of the entire universe; the mystery is among the toughest – finding out how the cosmos came to be; the odds are among the most daunting – bipeds, newly arrived by cosmic time scales trying to reveal the secrets of the ages; and the quest is among the deepest – the search for fundamental laws to explain all we see and beyond, from the tiniest particles to the most distant galaxies.”
—Brian Greene
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“The night is even more richly colored than the day… . If only one pays attention to it, one sees that certain stars are citron yellow, while others have a pink glow or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough.”- Vincent Van Gogh
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