hard vacuum

space + science fiction

[the-wolf-and-moon]

RCW 113, Dark Wolf

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Morris Scott Dollens (American, 1920-1994) Night on Titan, Venture Science Fiction, May 1958

[krakenmare]

VIRTIS on board ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft: Visible/ultraviolet image of Venus, taken during the first orbit around the planet (April 19, 2006)

[astromechapunk]

Engine Maintenance by Mac Rebisz 

[hearttended]

[ID: painting of a tiny astronaut floating in front of huge exhaust nozzles of a rocket or spacecraft. The nozzles are so large that they look like a void inside. End ID]

[70sscifiart]

Geoff Taylor’s 1980 cover art for Tau Zero by Poul Anderson

[70sscifiart]

John Berkey

[70sscifiart]

Richard Bizley

[70sscifiart]

Bob Eggleton

[ultrakillblast]

DUNE (1965) 1984 Paperback

[space-pics]

The clouds of Venus in infrared

[infinity-imagined]

Sunset on Pluto

[nasanaut]

On April 10th at 11:00pm AEST the first ever image of a black hole was released by the Event Horizons Telescope (EHT).

It is located more than 55 million light years from Earth and has a mass 6.5 billion times that of our sun. The gravitational pull of a black hole is so strong that not even visible light can escape their pull.

Humans are quite small compared to the universe, yet our touch has reached further than any man could.

- Image Credit : EHT

[gaeree]

fear

[cosmosastronaut]

If we were able to look at a black hole from different orientations we would be able to see light even from parts of the accretion disc behind the black hole as they are lensed above and below the shadow region! [Credits: L. R. Weih & L. Rezzolla of Goethe University, Frankfurt]

[1st-1]

[space-pics]

The Dolphin on Jupiter [1724x3064]

[space-pics]

Blood Moon leaving Earth’s shadow, feat. Clouds [OC]