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Centaurus A. Check that motherfucker out. There’s some serious shit going on in this picture. Most notably a hungry-ass black hole eating the remnants of two collided galaxies. Rock.

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Above. That’s Mars. MARS. Gives me tit-tightening goosebumps just contemplating that fact. The entire five-year mission of the Mars rover Spirit has been condensed into a 3+ minute video. The rover ain’t doing much, but it’s working with terrain on Mars. Fucking Mars. With an alien horizon in the background. Hnng!

Hit the jump to check it out.

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This is some high-resolution cosmic porn right hurr.  The Pic du Midi observatory in France has compiled a glorious video of Jupiter in all Its Mighty Glory.

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This enormous cosmic view features two of the best known star clusters that we can see from our Small Water Planet. Pleiades and Hydaes, roll call!

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The Sun hasn’t been fucking around this year. Massive solar activity, sunspots. So we haven’t been messing around in our coverage of it. Check out this big beautiful picture of our Solar Engine.

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Check out this time lapse taken aboard the ISS that everyone and their momma is chatting about today. Phenomenal shit. The glory of the cosmos juxtaposed with evidence of mankind’s technological movement. We ain’t done much, but we ain’t done nothin‘.

Or something.

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Check out M83. What a gorgeous picture. Generally I’m entertained by all the pictures of nebula and galaxies I post, but this roaring orange blaze is more stunning than the average one to me.

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Every so often, the International Space Station has to reboost itself to a higher altitude, because of wonky things like microgravity drag (I didn’t think that up) and such bringing it closer to our Watery Blue Planet. Recently, during a reboost the ISS crew videotape the effects of this altitude correction on their lovely little bodies.

Hint: they get to go for a ride.

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I thought I was done with the Symphony of Science auto-tuning craze. Then the genre didn’t play fair. They combined  Neil deGrasse Tyson and some Existential Prostate Milking with some pretty music. I laughed. I cried. I rubbed up against Tyson’s mustache on my monitor. No seriously, there are few people in the world as inspiring these days to me as Neil. The beauty, the beauty!

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In 185 AD Chinese astronomers caught glimpse of a new star in the  Nanmen asterism. A phrase previously unknown to me which refers to a very specific portion of the galactic cosmos ceiling (thing). It also may be the earliest recorded supernova.

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