The ceaselessly talented Debbie Millman remembers pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, who passed away earlier this year, in this beautiful visual essay for The New York Times. The artwork is made of felt letters painstakingly hand-stitched on felt fabric.
Beautiful.
Who needs a calendar when you can have this gorgeous graphic yearlight calendar displaying the duration of daylight, twilight, and moonlight for each day of the year?
Outstanding work.
Be sure to check out NASA’s visualization of the Moon’s face for every hour of 2013, in video and GIF form.
From back when people actually had to draw Google Maps. Epic globes.
Beautiful science illustrations of scale by design duo Brainstorm, a fine addition to these essential visualizations of the scale of the universe.
if you don’t stop and look beyond your own world once in a while, you’ll never get an appreciation for the real scale of things.
Artist Angela Palmer’s stunning layered MRI self-portraits engraved in glass.
Name your price, Angela. What will it take to get my brain, on glass, on my wall?
What’s not to love about these solar system lollipops? A perfect way to celebrate the 35th birthday of Voyager 1, which brought us the iconic Pale Blue Dot.
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Also a perfect thing to lick on while you fly through these moonscapes! (Seriously, watching that moon fly-through will make your night.)
aMAZEme – Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, in collaboration with production company Hungry Man, build a labyrinth of 250,000 books inspired by Jorge Luis Borges.
Talk about getting lost in reading …
Stunning celestial maps from 1825, based on Ancient Greek mythology.
Fun fact: In various cultures past and present, the ubiquitous “Big Dipper” constellation (or “asterism” to be more accurate) was interpreted not only as part of a bear, but also as …
Perspective is everything.
Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects… the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Mental health break: Breathtaking slow-motion footage of jellyfish by Anthony Yerba.
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Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoooooosh.
So alien, yet so calming. One of the extreme oddities of nature’s forms, no?
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