Το σύμπαν της τέχνης και οι τέχνες τ' ουρανού

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Himmels Atlas in 20 Blättern nach den grossen Bodenschen Sternkarten, Cristian Gottlieb M. Riedig, Λειψία, 1849

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Himmels Atlas in 20 Blättern nach den grossen Bodenschen Sternkarten, Cristian Gottlieb M. Riedig, Λειψία, 1849

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Himmels Atlas in 20 Blättern nach den grossen Bodenschen Sternkarten, Cristian Gottlieb M. Riedig, Λειψία, 1849

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Himmels Atlas in 20 Blättern nach den grossen Bodenschen Sternkarten, Cristian Gottlieb M. Riedig, Λειψία, 1849

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Himmels Atlas in 20 Blättern nach den grossen Bodenschen Sternkarten, Cristian Gottlieb M. Riedig, Λειψία, 1849

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Himmels Atlas in 20 Blättern nach den grossen Bodenschen Sternkarten, Cristian Gottlieb M. Riedig, Λειψία, 1849

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Himmels Atlas in 20 Blättern nach den grossen Bodenschen Sternkarten, Cristian Gottlieb M. Riedig, Λειψία, 1849

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Himmels Atlas in 20 Blättern nach den grossen Bodenschen Sternkarten, Cristian Gottlieb M. Riedig, Λειψία, 1849

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Himmels Atlas in 20 Blättern nach den grossen Bodenschen Sternkarten, Cristian Gottlieb M. Riedig, Λειψία, 1849

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Άστρα στην Νήσο του Πάσχα, Stéphane Guisard, 2009

 

APOD 12-10-09

 

Ορατό το Μέγα Νέφος του Μαγγελάνου

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Madame Tussaud's Auditorium, Λονδίνο

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The More Loving One, W. H. Auden, 1957

 

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well

That, for all they care, I can go to hell,

But on earth indifference is the least

We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn

With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am

Of stars that do not give a damn,

I cannot, now I see them, say

I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,

I should learn to look at an empty sky

And feel its total darkness sublime,

Though this might take me a little time.

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Orbitron, Disneyland, Παρίσι

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ISS, STS 128, 2009

 

APOD 5-10-09

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Globo Celeste, Giovanni Maria Cassini, 1792

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Globo Celeste, Giovanni Maria Cassini, 1792

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Globo Celeste, Giovanni Maria Cassini, 1792

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Globo Celeste, Giovanni Maria Cassini, 1792

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Globo Celeste, Giovanni Maria Cassini, 1792

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Globo Celeste, Giovanni Maria Cassini, 1792

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To Fly Free in Space, 1984

 

O Robert Stewart χρησιμοποιεί το MMU κατά την αποστολή STS 41-B το 1984.

 

APOD 27-9-09

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Ηλιακό ρολόι, περίπου 1575

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This Lunar Beauty, W. H. Auden, 1907-1973

 

This lunar beauty

Has no history

Is complete and early ;

If beauty later

Bear any feature

It had a lover

And is another.

This like a dream

Keeps other time,

And daytime is

The loss of this ;

For time is inches

And the heart's changes

Where ghost has haunted,

Lost and wanted.

But this was never

A ghost's endeavour

Nor, finished this,

Was ghost at ease ;

And till it pass

Love shall not near

The sweetness here

Nor sorrow take

His endless look.

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Νυκτερινό Τηλεσκόπιο, Janet Taylor, Λονδίνο, 1850

 

Μαόνι και Μπρούτζος

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Liber locis stellarum fixarum, Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi, 964