#nemesisop

[celestialreconnaissance]

This spectacular sight is of the Large Magellenic Cloud in the southern hemisphere. This composite highlights gas clouds (which we can’t see with our naked eye from Earth) so it looks like random bubbles of gas all over in brilliant colors.

Retrieved from:

NASA APOD

[celestialreconnaissance]

Jupiter: South Pole.

Jupiter via Juno by NASA - more to come.

[celestialreconnaissance]

M87: This galaxy has the heaviest and largest black hole that scientists have ever seen. Conveniently, there's a yo' mama joke waiting to happen with the description of M87.

[celestialreconnaissance]

NGC 474: See that odd formation? No one really has an answer for this galaxy and why it looks so weird. Perhaps someone else on the science side of tumblr can figure out what NASA can’t.

[celestialreconnaissance]

I saw this picture of one of my favorite humans, Hank Green, floating around and felt like I had to add these basic examples. Yes, there are extremely harmful chemicals/molecules out there, but you can't be afraid of all chemicals because literally everything is made of chemicals - from the air to your full body. Your body functions because it makes chemicals and reacts with other chemicals. Your senses are results of chemical reactions. Your emotions are chemicals, your food and nutrition are chemicals, your whole life is chemicals. Whether it's a solid, liquid, or a gas. Chemicals. There's a big reason why you have to take a lot of chemistry when you study biology... Life IS chemistry.