A Deep Sky Behind an Eclipsed Moon : The plan was to capture a picturesque part of the sky that was hosting an unusual guest. The result included a bonus — an additional and unexpected guest. The beautiful background features part of the central band of our Milky Way galaxy on the far left, and the colorful clouds of Rho Ophiuchi in the image center. The unusual guest, a dimmed and reddened Moon on the right, was expected because the image was taken during last week’s total lunar eclipse. The timing had to be right because the Moon — both before and after eclipse — would be so bright it would overwhelm the background. The unexpected guest was the bright meteor across the image center. The fleeting meteor streak was captured on only one of the 10 consecutively-captured deep-field images from La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands, while the eclipsed Moon image was taken immediately afterwards with the same camera and from the same location. The next total lunar eclipse — also quite expected — will occur in early November. via NASA

Star Trek + Minimalist

a commission i LOVED for the wonderful @thundergirl007, this time of both reboot and original series chekov contending with some tribbles!!!

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STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE dir. Robert Wise

who are you?

Why Star Trek? That's what the woman asked me when she asked about my shirt. and I tried to tell her where I bought it. and she goes “No, no. why… why that? Why is that your thing?” And it hit me in a flash. It really did. If you look at all the other science-fiction writers, they always view the world as getting to this post apocalyptic, horrible, dystopian nightmare. To name a few: Alien, Terminator, Blade Runner, Mad Max, IRobot, Brave New World, Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes, Fahrenheit 451, Westworld, Waterworld, The Matrix, I Am legend. it goes on, and on. Star Trek is the only universe where they said “We fixed it. We solved it. We solved all the problems on the Earth and then we headed for the stars. We said We formed the United Federation of Planets. We are from Earth. She asked me “Why Star Trek?” Cause it’s the only one that has hope. Star Trek has hope.

— Tom Bottelsen

Space, the final frontier

Ensign Chekov,  Pavel Andreievich, sir.

“To boldly go where no man has gone before” - Star Trek (2009)

prod·i·gy

/ˈprädəjē/

-> A person, esp. a young one, endowed with exceptional abilities.