siminiblocker:

Sissix and Rosemary, again from Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. I finished the second one last week as well, which has another cast of excellent characters. I love how cozy and lived in these books feel, while still being really thoughtful on challenging your persepctive- it’s not something I’d come to expect from science fiction. 

Anyways. working away on other projects, but fan art is an all to tempting anxiety break 🙂

wheezis:

sourdoughnibblers:

itsfullofstars:

VIDEO FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET

This is truly incredible.

Details:

Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.

while the stuff in the foreground is dust/ice on the surface of the comet itself, the background is actually stars. i saw a stabilized video where you can really make it out, and it blew my mind.

here’s the stabilized clip, if anyone’s interested