#March2011
Image Of The Tarantula Nebula Makes Me Shoot Web.
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Behold the Tarantula Nebulae, who is absolutely stunning. The nebulae, which is located a mere 170,000 light years away is a hotbed of star-creating majesty.
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This Shooting Star Is Astronaut Pee From Discovery.
Behold the sexiness of….astronaut piss? The above image was taken by Jens Hackmann of Germany. Theoretically, it’s of the Discovery venting its excess water, but what exactly is in that water?
The Moon’s Got A Sexy Rearside.
Saturn’s Rings Are Slicing Titan’s Throat.
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That’s Saturn’s moon, Titan. Straight chillin’, balancing on top of Saturn’s gorgeous rings. Sort of. The powers of perspective, summoned! Consummated. But what is really interesting is how fucking thin Saturn’s rings are. Something I don’t really stop and contemplate. Well, I don’t contemplate much, but that’s obvious.
The Sun Turns A Detached Prominence Into Art.
Solar Eclipse From Space Shows Moon Reversing Direction. Wut?
This video of the solar eclipse is rad for several reasons. For starters, you can see some pretty righteous magnetic activity on the Sun’s surface. The Sun is spittin’ like a mad dragon, fiery hotness! Also, it features an optical illusion wherein the Moon appears to enter the scene, and then somehow, reverse direction.
Hit the jump for the video.
Sunflower Galaxy Is A Spiraling Beauty.
Bioluminescent Star Trail Photography Is Ocular Porn.
New Proof Earth Life Came From Space. Sick.
Knock knock! What’s that? Oh, it’s just new evidence that life on Earth may have been carried to our glorious Marble by some fucking runaway asteroid. The concept of this happening is either enough to give you a Carl Sagan boner, or to point at the sky and say, “Yes, something is definitely up there.”
California Gets Its Own Nebula; Swank and Cosmic.
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Oh shit! Just when you thought that California couldn’t be any more out of touch with reality, the son of a bitch has taken to the cosmos. The California Nebula, or if you want to call it by its slave name, NGC 1499, is straight-up chilling out in Orion’s Arm, in our own goddamn galaxy. We’re famous!
