supermassive

main blog to a lot of side blogs

[quasistellar]

in case it was not clear by notifs, the main sideblog i'm on relates to a threatening keyboard instrument

[mollybeenoel]

[hamletthedane]

Iconic Photographs of Earth from Space

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there.

On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

Artemis II (Reid Wiseman), 2026 - “Hello World!”

Artemis II (Reid Wiseman), 2026 - “Earthset”

Apollo 8 (William Anders), 1968 - “Earthrise”

Artemis II (Reid Wiseman), 2026

Voyager I, 1977

Mars Curiosity Rover, 2014 - “Martian Astronomer”

Cassini–Huygens, 2006 - “The Day The Earth Smiled” [NASA-enhanced composite RGB photo]

Voyager I, 1990 - “The Pale Blue Dot”

[itscolossal]

Artemis II Captures Spectacular Images of ‘Earthset’ from Deep Space

[mounchii]

The Moon✨🌕

[cocoa-cioccolata]

Moon Fanart

[hamletthedane]

GUYS. THIS IS A REAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY A HUMAN. HOLY SHIT.

[gemini-enthusiast]

The first photos are coming in from Artemis II, and they are stunning. Photos of our home planet from humans we are sending further than anyone has gone before.

[gemini-enthusiast]

And now two more. The first of which being taken by Commander Reid Wiseman just minutes from the other Blue Marble picture seen above, showcasing the effect of different camera setting on space photography. Pictures of our home, where all but four of us are looking up from.

[blasteffect]

Saturn's north pole !

The hexagon is nearly 30,000 km (20,000 miles) wide. This is large enough that two Earths could fit inside the storm with room to spare.

It is a standing atmospheric wave created by a powerful jet stream that wraps around the pole. Winds along its edges can exceed 300 km/h (about 220 mph).

At the very center of the hexagon lies a deep, dark polar vortex that extends hundreds of kilometers down into Saturn's atmosphere.

Spacecraft/Mission: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI (Space Science Institute).

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Artist’s impression and illustrations of ancient observations of Planets, comets, eclipse, moon, constellations, etc. (Images taken from the book: Astronomy for the use of schools and academies, Astronomy for amateurs, Elements of astronomy, A short course in astronomy and the use of the globes)

Credit: Internet Archive Book Images

[teathattast]

[teathattast]

Wake up babe new unexplainable horrors dropped

[jungwildeandfree]

ok but scientists do have some explanation for how they exist. they have multiple hypothesis. one of them suggests that these might be extremely short-lived phenomena (on a stellar timescale), in which case we are very lucky to see them! another suggests that it might be background noise (very likely. very boring.) -- there's some interesting findings that suggest the thing that is most unusual about these binary systems is how many of them they spotted in the same stellar neighborhood. The research on these is really cool, check it out!

[theofficialastronomy101]

This is one of the strongest solar storms in ages. View from ISS is incredible.

[souperluminal]

05.10 - Morningstar

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

The crescent Moon occults the bright planet Venus during daytime on September 19, 2025

Credit: H.Raab

[sylvrndoodles]

*:･ﾟ✧

[detailedart]

Saturn - photos (polarised: false colour) respectively taken on the 19 of August 2012, and the 11 of March 2006. NASA.

[detailedart]

Saturn peeking behind the Moon, seen from the top of the Mauna Kea Volcana, in Hawaii, in September 2024. Do you realise a person on Earth took that picture. Wow.