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The self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc never fails to amaze me. It's just unreal.
And Antonio Turok's photograph of the 1991 total eclipse of the sun in Chiapas, Mexico. This one because even when I know what an eclipse is and how does it happen, there's a moment in my head when I think "What if it never ends? What if everything stays like this forever?" I see that instant of terror in this photo.
First time I'm seeing the second one, that's amazing, thanks for sharing.
Believe me, that photograph can't be unseen, it's like the Sun itself is watching you, mad at you. Sorry I couldn't find something of better quality to upload.
The "Pale Blue Dot" image of earth taken by Voyager 1. Carl Sagan pushed to have Voyager take a parting shot before they turned off the camera. The earth is about one pixel in size.
Called "Earthrise", taken during the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968. Always tried to imagine what it was like to have had that view IRL.
Because it's a nice innocent photo of a man walking with nobody on his left side.
I can't think of a great historical photo right now but I'm loving this thread
This is the hubble Deep Field and is part of a series of deep field images. It was taken by directing the hubble telescope on a tiny dark spot of space. Every single light in this image is a galaxy, many of them as large or larger than our own. It truly shows the immensity of our universe and shows how insignifcant all our problems really are in the grand scheme of things.
Margaret Hamilton standing next to listings of the software that she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo Project.
I love her, and the code she used is adorable:
"LOL Memory" (Core Rope): The code was literally woven into hardware by women in factories, dubbed "Little Old Lady" memory.
6-year old Ruby Bridges walking to school.
This picture was always so powerful to me. I think I had that one famous illustrated storybook about Ruby Bridges.
Yury Gagarin and Gina Lollobrigida. First man into space and one of the most famous actresses back then.
