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"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. [2] In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" (most likely after a line from either Milton's Paradise Lost or Shakespeare's Macbeth) [3] in the hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts.
Cosmic latte is the average color of the galaxies of the universe as perceived from the Earth, found by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In 2002, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the average color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in a 2003 paper in which they reported that their survey of the light from over ...
On Colors (Greek Περὶ χρωμάτων; Latin De Coloribus) is a treatise attributed to Aristotle [1] but sometimes ascribed to Theophrastus or Strato.The work outlines the theory that all colors (yellow, red, purple, blue, and green) are derived from mixtures of black and white.
First edition cover art of Ralph Brillhart published by Monarch Books. The Colors of Space is a 1963 science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley.. The book has been reviewed by P. Schuyler Miller for the Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1964), by Steve Miller for the Science Fiction Review (1983), and also that year by Robert Coulson for the Amazing Science Fiction.
"A Sign in Space": The idea that the galaxy slowly revolves becomes a story about a being who is desperate to leave behind some unique sign of his existence. This story also is a direct illustration of one of the tenets of postmodern theory —that the sign is not the thing it signifies, nor can one claim to fully or properly describe a thing ...
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First full-disk black-and-white filtered [40] color picture of the Earth. [6] November 10, 1967 ATS-3: First full-disk "true color" [41] picture of the Earth; [42] subsequently used on the cover of the first Whole Earth Catalog. [43] [42] December 21, 1968 Apollo 8: First full-disk image of Earth from space taken by a person, probably by ...
The chronology of the universe describes the history and future of the universe according to Big Bang cosmology.. Research published in 2015 estimates the earliest stages of the universe's existence as taking place 13.8 billion years ago, with an uncertainty of around 21 million years at the 68% confidence level.