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Check out the flat face of one of Saturn’s moons, Mimas. Son of a bitch (or daughter of a bitch?) got itself rocked some time ago by a vicious space-object and it’s had to suffer the malformation ever since.

How big is that impact? Enormous.

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That vague picture above is a poor rendition of something that is probably beyond the comprehension of our fat simian grey matter. It’s a black hole literally tearing apart a star.

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César Cantú took a picture of W5, known as the Soul Nebula. However, through a variety of imaging filters, he managed to reveal the nebula’s true friggin’ nature: as the most metal of nebula, the Skull Nebula.

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Behold the majesty of the Milky Way galaxy. This panorama is taken in the Chilean desert, and we can see our galaxy as we are nestled comfortably inside the disc of our galaxy.

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Oh shit! The motherfucking Erf is hungrrrrrrrry. Check it out as it takes a bite of the Sun. Munchin’ on plasma gets the heart beating like you wouldn’t believe. In all honesty, this is a picture snagged by  NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the reasons for it appearing the way it does is beyond me.

But not Phil Plait.

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That enormous glob of cosmic gorgeousness in the middle of the above picture? It’s  NGC 6872, a spiral galaxy. It’s not just any spiral galaxy, though.  NGC 6872 is currently taking an ass-whupping from the smaller galaxy to the right, IC 4970.  The two sons a bitches are colliding, and it’s a tussle spanning hundreds of millions of years.

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Behold!, fellow astronomical dorkcore assholes like myself. The image above is every single exoplanet  orbiting every single star found by the Kepler telescope. Go ahead, click it.

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Drink deep in the glory of the first picture of Mercury ever from an orbiting spaceship. Emphasis on orbiting. The sexy image features a cavernous pockmark impact crater.

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Check out that gorgeous shot. The picture is a collection of images taken by the spacecraft  Mars Odyssey over a three-year goddamn period. Stare at that, and then try and appreciate the fact that you’re looking at a fucking alien world. Faux-stoner moment, woah!

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Everything in my existence is funneled through comparisons to video games, comic books, Star Wars, and sporting events. So when I’m staring at  MWC 922, all I can see is the beginning of a level of Rez. What I’m really looking at is a fucking square nebula. Brimming with red and oddity.

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