Nose ring. Can I pull this off?

me as a parent

Me + Matt Nathanson
Cedar Rapids, IA
07/10/14

_{“People love Hubble images. It tells them where they came from. It tells them where they’re going.”}

Every star is a sun as big, as bright, as our own. Just imagine, how far away from us you’d have to move the sun to make it appear as small and faint as a star. The light from the stars travels very fast. Faster than anything. But not infinitely fast. It takes time for their light to reach us. For the nearest ones, it takes years. For others, centuries. Some stars are so far away it takes eons for their light to get to Earth.

By the time the light from some stars gets here they are already dead. For those stars, we see only their ghosts. We see their light, but their bodies perished long, long ago.

– Episode 5: A Sky Full Of Ghosts, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey

“What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth’s light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.”

– Yuri Gagarin, The first human in Space.  (via wordsnquotes)