Galaxy Of Dreams

'If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently' - Bill Watterson

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Special Stars by JamesWheeler

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The SWEEPS Field - A Massive Star Survey 

The Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search, or SWEEPS, was a 2006 astronomical survey project using the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys - Wide Field Channel to monitor 180,000 stars for seven days to detect extrasolar planets via the transit method.

The stars that were monitored in this astronomical survey were all located in the Sagittarius-I Window, a rare transparent view to the Milky Way’s central bulge stars in the Sagittarius constellation as our view to most of the galaxy’s central stars is blocked by lanes of dust. These stars in the galaxy’s central bulge region are approximately 27,000 light years from Earth.

Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Clarkson (Indiana University and UCLA), and K. Sahu (STScI)

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Defending our galaxy by Álvaro y Jose Manuel Pérez Alonso. Brothers

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Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158 

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taipei glows under a blanket fog in these photos by wang wei zheng. (see also: dubai)

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The International Space Station’s Canadarm2 and Dextre, also known as the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator (SPDM), carry the Rapidscat instrument assembly after removing it from the trunk of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship (upper right), which is currently docked to the nadir port of the Harmony node.

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Astrophotography by Dieter Wallasch. Top to bottom: The Great Carina Nebula, Jellyfish Nebula, Southern Seagull Nebula.

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Every star is a sun as big, as bright, as our own. Just imagine, how far away from us you’d have to move the sun to make it appear as small and faint as a star. The light from the stars travels very fast. Faster than anything. But not infinitely fast. It takes time for their light to reach us. For the nearest ones, it takes years. For others, centuries. Some stars are so far away it takes eons for their light to get to Earth.

By the time the light from some stars gets here they are already dead. For those stars, we see only their ghosts. We see their light, but their bodies perished long, long ago.

- Episode 5: A Sky Full Of Ghosts, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey

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Orbit by Ben Stieger

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Starry Night of Qinhai Observatory

"Qinhai observation station is located near Delinha, the third largest city of Qinhai Province on the beautiful Tibetan Plateau at approximately 3200m elevation. In the white dome, there is a 13.7m radio telescope which is the only radio facility working in millimeter waveband in China." - Zhou Yannan

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What Would Happen If the Planets Lined Up?

via scishow:

Planetary alignments: They’re the favorite astronomical scenario of kooks, con artists, and Hollywood producers everywhere. But has it ever happened? And what would it do to Earth if it did? 

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NGC 4394 by geckzilla on Flickr.