thekhooll:

Observing Mars

George A. Van Biesbroeck (1880-1974), an astronomer at Yerkes Observatory, observing Mars when it approached close to the Earth that year. Van Biesbroeck is shown using the observatory’s 40 inch refracting telescope, the largest of its kind in the world.

Photograph via Smithsonian Institution

jaymug:

Favela by Fernando Alan

(Source: worldlyanimals)

chucrutypilsen:

Norberto Conti - Portrait of Bobby Fischer II