"and what the body allows / is a flash in the heart / until the memory dies"

A map of Pluto by New Horizons.

An account of surviving the bombing of Hiroshima by Tomiko Matsumoto. Content warning: graphic descriptions of radiation sickness. (via lost)

"I Could Not Sleep for Thinking of the Sky" by John Masefield.

Subject quote from "Black Eyes," Shearwater.