Olympus Mons and Phobos captured by Mars Express.
Image Credit: ESA, DLR, FU Berlin, Mars Express; Andrea Luck; h/t: Phil Plait
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Olympus Mons and Phobos captured by Mars Express.
Image Credit: ESA, DLR, FU Berlin, Mars Express; Andrea Luck; h/t: Phil Plait
Saw this license plate today and I'm still ugly laughing about it
I saw someone reblog this dismissing it as AI despite the fact they're 1 click away from a search engine. "Rosetta Nebula" is all you'd have to type. Perhaps the biggest travesty with ai images is going to be robbing people of their wonder for what's actually possible in the universe and continuing to shrink their bubble of understanding based on whether they believe it at a glance.
The image has been colorized differently above but the Rosetta Nebula is real and actually looks like that.
anyone else wanna hug astronaut Reid Wiseman and weep?
This is so cool
So gorgeous.
Falcon Heavy Demo Mission | SpaceX
The star cluster NGC 3572 and its dramatic surroundings
Credit: ESO/G. Beccari
Astronomers are now certain that the mysterious object detected hurtling past our sun last month is indeed from another solar system. They have named it 1I/2017 U1(’Oumuamua) and believe it could be one of 10,000 others lurking undetected in our cosmic neighbourhood.
The certainty of its extraterrestrial origin comes from an analysis that shows its orbit is almost impossible to achieve from within our solar system.
Its name comes from a Hawaiian term for messenger or scout. Indeed, it is the first space rock to have been identified as forming around another star. Since asteroids coalesce during the process of planet formation, this object can tell us something about the formation of planets around its unknown parent star.
PLEASE read this
Cygnus Spacecraft Approaches Space Station in the Sunset
Image Credit: ESA/NASA
A solar eclipse and the Milky Way seen from the ISS
I am practically in tears over how beautiful this image is.
same. i promise i teared up a little….
So tell me what to do I’m a spaceman lost in a black hole Don’t know where I’m gonna go Tell me what you hear Just like my memory Everyone around me is a star and they’re all burning out
Some new art inspired by Phantogram’s music. The process is in my new sketchbook, and this is available as a signed print on Etsy!
Space cat
Departure
The original nine. js