Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
Dude you good??
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That’s really interesting.
Not as funny as astronauts dropping things when they forget about gravity, but it’s up there.
Is this the whole thing??? It’s the first time I’ve seen this version.
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Yes, that’s the whole image
Mom and I were talking about traveling to different planets and colonies on Mars and meeting aliens and stuff like that, and she paused and said, “If life on Earth ends and we need to flee to a different planet, we’ll all need to work together. But also the first time a man pulls some shit, all the women need to murder him so everyone’s clear that we’re restarting society and we’re not bringing that shit with us. We’re not doing this again.”
Can you imagine Van Gogh’s reaction to seeing this?
absolutely superb
So that’s what “dark matter” is!
Solar System by Jian Guo on inprnt
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My Christmas tree! Every year I do a themed tree, and this year’s was fun to create! I made the rocket out of shiny poster board, the ornaments I got from the thrift store and repainted with glittery tempura paints to look like planets. The “exhaust” was created using some battery powered LED lights I already had, with polyester pillow fluff that also came from the thrift store. Total cost was about $3. I hope you all are having a lovely holiday season!
Women scientists made up 25% of the Pluto fly-by New Horizon team. Make sure you share this, because erasing women’s achievements in science and history is a tradition. Happens every day.
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70 seconds over 9 years and 3 billion miles…
…I just… Damn
Launch to Pluto flyby for New Horizons took 3,580 days, and she was off by 70 seconds. That’s like… That’s an error of 0.000000226%.
That’s fucking insane.
That’s not even a rounding error!
Thank you for putting words & numbers to my awe of her precision.
I am a huge fan of space, both outer and personal
i like how space doesn’t care about me. it’s impossible to disappoint the sun
when bae says he needs space
Stunning, rare photo of Antarctica seen from space
NASA’s Most Shocking Image
This image is a 1.5… *BILLION* pixel photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy.
To view the image in all its glory go here.
NASA is the coolest thing that’s ever happened.
alltogetherterrible oh gosh
I zoomed in and I was like “yeah right” while it loaded and then my jaw actually dropped
holy shit
i mean i knew theoretically what this was supposed to look like, but i didn’t actually expect to see it
but then when i zoomed in, all the noise turned into ACTUAL STARS, that you can see individually
good job, NASA
Jupiter’s moon, Callisto.
is no one going to explain what all the lights are
they’re impact craters! callisto is one of the most heavily cratered object in the solar system, and as far as my very basic research has just gone, the light parts are essentially iced over impact craters
so, essentially, we’re looking at something with a very frosty/icy surface. they’re bright because they reflect the sun!
