Magnificent Desolation

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stationcdrkelly

How do you get enough air to last a whole year? Gary, age 7

Hi Gary. We make oxygen out of water. We have tanks that have oxygen in it that we don’t use much. We have tanks that have nitrogen that we don’t use much. And we scrub the carbon dioxide from the air.

titou-deactivated20210207

J'ai aimé la photo Le Pic, la plaine et la Voie Lactée par @Pierre-Paul Feyte sur Flickr . Voir les Favoris de titounet sur Flickr Partagé via IFTTT

the-wolf-and-moon

Eagle Nebula, Shell of Dust

just--space

Southern Craters and Galaxies : The Henbury craters in the Northern Territory, Australia, planet Earth, are the scars of an impact over 4,000 years old. When an ancient meteorite fragmented into dozens of pieces, the largest made the 180 meter diameter crater whose weathered walls and floor are lit in the foreground of this southern hemisphere nightscape. The vertical panoramic view follows our magnificent Milky Way galaxy stretching above horizon, its rich central starfields cut by obscuring dust clouds. A glance along the galactic plane also reveals Alpha and Beta Centauri and the stars of the Southern Cross. Captured in the region’s spectacular, dark skies, the Small Magellanic Cloud, satellite of the Milky Way, is the bright galaxy to the left. Not the lights of a nearby town, the visible glow on the horizon below it is the Large Magellanic Cloud rising. via NASA

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jimbob2001

Just Pinned to NASA-Instagram: Icy Blue Wings of Hen 2-437: In this cosmic snapshot the spectacularly symmetrical wings of Hen 2-437 show up in a magnificent icy blue hue. Hen 2-437 is a planetary nebula one of around 3000 such objects known to reside within the Milky Way. Planetary nebulae such as Hen 2-437 form when an aging low-mass star - such as the sun - reaches the final stages of life. The star swells to become a red giant before casting off its gaseous outer layers into space. The star itself then slowly shrinks to form a white dwarf while the expelled gas is slowly compressed and pushed outwards by stellar winds. As shown by its remarkably beautiful appearance Hen 2-437 is a bipolar nebula - the material ejected by the dying star has streamed out into space to create the two icy blue lobes pictured here. Image credit: ESA (European Space Agency)/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt #nasa #space #astronomy #hubble #hst #telescope #nebula #nasabeyond #science by nasa http://ift.tt/1R1xKqu

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spaceexplorationphotography

Milky Way Arch

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provocative-planet-pics-please

Saturn eclipsing the sun, taken by the robotic spacecraft Cassini.

#astronomy #saturn #planets #thesun #spacephotography #awesomephotos #amazingphotos #iloveastronomy by nancie_therese https://www.instagram.com/p/BBuzzzrRQSl/

humanoidhistory

February 13, 2008 – ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel participates in a 6-hour, 45-minute spacewalk with Rex Walheim (unseen) outside the International Space Station. (NASA)