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Color the Universe

Explanation: Wouldn't it be fun to color in the universe? If you think so, please accept this famous astronomical illustration as a preliminary substitute. You, your friends, your parents or children, can print it out or even color it digitally. While coloring, you might be interested to know that even though this illustration has appeared in numerous places over the past 100 years, the actual artist remains unknown. Furthermore, the work has no accepted name -- can you think of a good one? The illustration, first appearing in a book by Camille Flammarion in 1888, is used frequently to show that humanity's present concepts are susceptible to being supplanted by greater truths.

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Where's Wally

Beyond the Veil of Night / Beyond the Wall of Night

The Enlightenment. Science pierces the veil.

"For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"....

I've long wanted to see a version of this picture in which the 21st century human is looking the other way -- from the realm of abstract thought, rediscovering with astonishment the wonders of the natural world.

Cosmic latte - I'm just saying!

Me being me, I of course hoped that the universe would turn out to be more blue. But all things considered, it is probably for the best that the universe is sort of beige. A blue universe would be more violent, more filled with supernovas, for example.

And while I don't drink latte myself, I sympathize with those who. It's not too bad to think that we live in a sort of milky universe, in a minute part of it called the Milky Way. Ours is a universe that has produced coffee, milk and humans, and that is not so very bad!

Ann

From one end to the other, and all points in between.

Gnome's Known Unknowns

infiniti termini

Beyond the celestial sphere - exploring the unkown

Bruno's Dream

I colored it the other day when it was posted to the Sky page on FB.

Ascension of Man

The Truth Is Out There

Ratcatcher wrote:Ascension of Man

Ascension of the Son of Man

Sapere Aude!

EUREKA!

"Seeking knowledge a little further"

He got the phase of The Moon right....and actually it is not all that bad as we know more now... and STILL have inaccurate "artists conceptions"....

It depicts...I believe... a man trying to "pierce the veil", and glean the "Secrets of the Universe"... which man has been doing since.... forever.... not really such a bad depiction....as "realms beyond what we can merely see".....very imaginative... and quite appropriate for the time.... We are still doing this.... M Theory anyone? 11th Dimension?

Name for Illustration? "Curiosity".....

"Pardon me, while I kiss the sky....."
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geckzilla wrote:I colored it the other day when it was posted to the Sky page on FB.

Good work, dude!

Limited minds, limitless skies

Although the artist is not known, the vision is based on Ezekiel’s text from the Old Testament. A wheel within a wheel.

Latest from Hubble, false-colour coded, reveals some very nearby secrets?

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.
History of non-science stuff, taken up by leyliners and tarot card readers. Wholly out of place on a science webpage.

John

JohnD wrote:History of non-science stuff, taken up by leyliners and tarot card readers. Wholly out of place on a science webpage.

This is very much a part of the history of astronomy, unless you want to believe that astronomy as a science just suddenly appeared one day without any previous effort. It's also interesting to many people.