Apocalyptic Antics

Jupiter’s South Pole, taken by NASA’s Cassini

Virgil Finlay

Henryk Płóciennik (1976) Source, source, source

-via Design Bloom, November 24, 2023. Very cool! Some excellent info on exactly why these will be so useful in the comments.

shit man this got me emotional

right: the Webb Space Telescope, July 2022, revealing thousands of baby galaxies forming in the early days of the universe - humankind’s deepest look into the sky

Here’s some extra photos of the disc from when it was exhibited just in case

'Defend The Internet Archive' linocut print by Molly White. Bid on a print to support the Internet Archive's Open Library. [Image description] Black ink linocut print of a person in a dress reaching for a book on a large bookshelf. Above is “Free people read freely”; below is “Defend the Internet Archive”.

𝘆ℴ𝔲 𝘮𝙪𝚜𝘵 𝒄𝖔𝕟𝓽𝕣𝚘𝒍 𝓉𝐡𝒆 𝕒𝓁𝒈𝗼𝔯𝐢𝙩𝙝𝐦, 𝗼𝚛 𝑡ℎ𝓮 𝒶𝗹𝚐𝙤𝖗𝙞𝚝𝐡𝓶 𝔴𝒾𝖑𝖑 𝗰𝕠𝒏𝔱𝒓𝓸𝘭 𝓎𝓸𝑢.

“Tracks made by atomic particles from a particle accelerator, a device that speeds up the particles. The eye can’t see protons, electrons, and other subatomic particles, but a camera records their frothy wakes in a chamber of liquefied neon and hydrogen at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Physicists study the tracks to learn about the characteristics of the particles that produced them.” - National Geographic, 1978.