Fuck, yo. If nature ain’t a real fucking gorgeous son of a gun. And goddamn if it doesn’t chap my ass that I can’t get out to places with the necessary lighting to peep me a look at the Milky Way Galaxy. It seems that luckier, more talented people will have to continue to bring me looks.

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Oh, sexy. Check out Thackeray’s Globules. They’re so shiny. And enormous. And something? Not sure where I’m going with this conceit. Anyways, behold interstellar dust clouds, the largest of which are a goddamn light-year wide.

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That red outlined spec in the middle of that picture is Betelgeuse. The roaring, rumbling, amorphous sexily shaded cloud surrounding it is an enormous nebula of dust.

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Meet  Corona Australis. This glorious dust cloud is a meager 500 light-years away.

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The  Eight Burst Nebula has one of the dopest names in recent Nebulistic (my word) memory. It’s also a glorious golden halo, with two brooding stars in the near-center.

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Meet  Centaurus A, a galaxy whose central black hole has the glorious claim of spewing plasma. Lots of it. The spewing amazo-plasma jets are million of light years long. Sweet Jesus.

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