There is one big tear on planet Earth, on the land humans call “Pakistan” these days, on the land with most glaciers after the poles, there is one big tear that space travellers could see.
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Apsis of spacetime: the Slowness of the Aphelion
We (as a planet) just made it to another aphelion. The cosmic advice for today is: take it slowly, enjoy those 500 m/s less than average orbital speed.
On heat waves and new emotions
Good morning from the Vanguard of Climate Collapse in the rich part of the world: the Iberian Peninsula. This post was written as we were just coming out of a heat wave about ten days long: a heat wave that happened even before the solstice, which, I remember, marks the time of the year whenContinue reading “On heat waves and new emotions”
Cosmic Home
🇧🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 This is home. As seen from Mars, after sunset. There is a little rover with a camera on Mars — humans sent it, and it took this photograph of all of us, 160 millions kilometers away. We all are the “evening star” in someone else’s sky. We all are just a tiny tinyContinue reading “Cosmic Home”
Galactic Diamond
Mosaic of four different terrestrial point of view of the Milky Way galaxy: a cosmic ring made by photographer Alvin Wu.
Cosmic eyes
🇪🇸 🇧🇷 🇮🇹 “Little” Cosmic Eyes: the difference a century of human advance can make. The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398 as seen from Earth: today (ESO telescopes, photo on the left) and about 100 years ago (Telescope of the Palomar Observatory, photo on the right). The photons arriving on Earth are the same; weContinue reading “Cosmic eyes”
Earth Day
Earth Day is everyday. We all share the same planet.
A global selfie on our way to planet Mercury
Global human selfie taken with the cameras of the BepiColombo space mission on its way toward planet Mercury.
The Good Circulation of Wisdom
How to gain calm and courage: strategy for a good circulation of wisdom during difficult times.
From a tweet by @reinoso_alvaro.
A little bit of Cosmic neighborhood
Our cosmic neighborhood: Moon, Venus, the Pleiades, as seen from our planet Earth.