Space & things

cool, beautiful, stunning, unbelievable, crazy, extraordinary...or even ordinary things about space.

[taohun]

seeing the photos from Webb up against photos from Hubble just makes me… I don’t even know like, wow! Look at that!

[robertozod]

Hubble's Cosmic Reef

Happy 30th birthday Hubble!

[photos-of-space]

The planet Uranus. Credit: Mount Wilson Observatory (2009)

[humanoidhistory]

[humanoidhistory]

The north pole of Saturn, observed by the Cassini space probe on June 14, 2016. Assembled by Kevin Gill using various infrared filtered images.

[kues]

Rainsoop

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Comet Jacques Piercing the Heart and Soul Nebulae

[plant-folk]

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

[robertozod]

First photos of Ultima Thule from New Horizon's New Year's fly-by. It is an object 1.5 billion kilometres past Pluto, and is the furthest object to be photographed by a spacecraft.

[robertozod]

[nasanaut]

Different angles of Saturn show it’s stunning rings as nothing more than a thin line. Enceladus also features in these images, one of the leading contenders for life outside of Earth.

Source - NASA/ESA, Cassini Via - astrodaily1 (instagram)

[spacetoday]

Wolf Galaxy

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Cat’s Eye Nebula

[selantalksaboutspace]

Stickney Crater on Phobos.

[selantalksaboutspace]

Ganymede.

[sixpenceee]

Dust, stars, and cosmic rays swirling around Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, captured by the Rosetta probe. (Source)

[peachesnsunshine]

*kicks the front door in* DO YOU SEE HOW GODDAMN FUCKING COOL THIS SHIT IS

WE HAVE VIDEO. FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET. SENT BY A ROBOT.

ROSETTA PROBE YOU’RE AMAZING WE LOVE YOU

[pyrrhiccomedy]

That cliff is a kilometer high. is Here’s what you’re actually looking at:

[delotha]

THANK YOU

i was wondering

[hockeylvr42]

Not only is this shit cool as hell but you gotta realize how unbelievably remarkable of a task this is and how hard it was to pull off.

Humans managed to send a tiny hunk of metal stuffed with electronics millions and millions and millions of miles away through this hostile, airless envionent to land (without breaking it!) on the equivalent of a dirty snowball shooting though outer space

That’s like shooting a bullet from LA to London and hitting a moving target that’s only one foot across, and having the bullet survive the ordeal unscathed.

Plus! We humans developed a way to videotape and transmit pictures from this snowball in space so we know what it’s like to stand the surface.

I mean, is that not mind blowingly amazing???

[thebeautifulcosmos]

[dennybitte]

dreams mostly have a meaning

by Denny Bitte