Ohio Total Solar Eclipse

NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

Star trail. Old French fairy tales. c.1920. Spot illustration.

Internet Archive

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

Futurama, Godfellas

"Now, when I'm found in a million years, people will know what the score was." - Bender

The plaque affixed to the side of the sides of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecrafts in 1972 & 1973. The Pioneer spacecrafts were the first anythings of human origin to be destined to leave our solar system. Both probes did a lot of research within our solar system before skedaddling off into infinity.

"empowering women by sending katy perry to space for 2 minutes" shut the fuck up. samantha cristoforetti was the first female commander of the international space station and she became an astronaut because of star trek. and there is a real chance she is a kirk/spock shipper

dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET?