Posts Tagged venus
To The Stars!
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Books & Literature on February 12, 2010
First Spaceship on Venus (from the 1960 East Germany/Poland film)
Handpicking a few — just a few — from Dark Roasted Blend’s latest installment of their “Retro Future: To the Stars!” series of fantastic retro space art.
Fragment of the cover of The War Against The Rull by A. E. Van Vogt; image via modern_fred @ Flickr
These three are my favorites from this round; I find the space cowboys especially charming:
Fragment of the Grosset & Dunlap 1950 Book of Model Spaceships
Ancient Astronomy
Posted by Danielle in Perspectives on May 14, 2009
Astronomical observation goes back to the dawn of civilization, and digging around online yielded this neat interactive atlas of ancient astronomy — starts at continents and refines on down from there. Also, the Wikipedia entry on archaeoastronomy is pretty darned extensive, and covers a lot of different cultures and time periods. (Ancient civilizations are a fascination of mine, so the amount of pictures made me a little giddy.)
Archaeoastronomy can be applied to all cultures and all time periods. The meanings of the sky vary from culture to culture; nevertheless there are scientific methods which can be applied across cultures when examining ancient beliefs. It is perhaps the need to balance the social and scientific aspects of archaeoastronomy which led Clive Ruggles to describe it as: “…[A] field with academic work of high quality at one end but uncontrolled speculation bordering on lunacy at the other.”
As for me, I’m just going to oggle the Nebra skydisk:
Friday Picspam, part 4
I’ve got the Moon on my brain today, so here’s some Moon-spam for ya! First, the above sketch by Deirdre Kelleghan shows Venus emerging from the limb of the moon, following a lunar occultation, shown below:
Next, this was last Friday’s APOD, of the Moon (the LARGE, faint crescent) and Venus (the small bright crescent):
This next image is the latest, best far-side map of the Moon, courtesy of SELENE/Kaguya (and today’s LPOD) in glorious shades of grey…
…which is simplified from this color version, downloadable in ENORMO-VISION.
Solar System Travel Posters
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Travel & Leisure on August 29, 2008
My husband pointed out this great blog post, featuring travel posters to other times and places, real and fictional. One of the artists showcased is Steve Thomas, whose solar system travel posters are simply captivating. These are but a few, and you can get them all (plus Rivendell!) in large-format calendar form for 2009! Fantastic stuff, I hope to see more from him soon!
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My name is Danielle Signor, and I am a space cadet.
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