Through Intergalactic Space

2 notes - posted 2 weeks ago - reblog

posted 2 weeks ago - reblog

The birthplace of a billion stars
This breeding ground for new stars, captured as never before by the Hubble Space Telescope, is in the heart of the Tarantula nebula some 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud – a small satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way.

54 notes - posted 2 weeks ago - reblog

thenewenlightenmentage:

Weird Galaxy Glows Bright in Amazing Telescope Photo
A telescope in Chile has caught a spectacular new view of a peculiar galaxy with a monster black hole at its heart.
The new image shows the galaxy Centaurus A, which is a sprawling elliptical galaxy located about 12 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). The peculiar galaxy emits strong radio emissions and is the most prominent radio galaxy in the sky, according to officials from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
Continue Reading

737 notes - posted 2 weeks ago - reblog

mothernaturenetwork:

Solar eclipse viewable in U.S., China, JapanDepending on where people are in the eclipse’s path, some may witness an annular eclipse in which the moon blocks out all but a ring of the sun. The event will be the first time in 18 years that such an eclipse is visible from the continental United States.

496 notes - posted 2 weeks ago - reblog

drove:

Mercury Redstone (MR-1), launch, November 21, 1960

posted 2 weeks ago - reblog

18 notes - posted 2 weeks ago - reblog

iliveinaspiralgalaxy:

Faint Ring, Bright Arc by Planetary Ring Image of the Day on Flickr.

31 notes - posted 2 weeks ago - reblog

myunexpectedsuprise:

Third Quarter / Last Quarter Moon (Labeled) - May 13, 2012 by spacemike on Flickr.

931 notes - posted 2 weeks ago - reblog

46,433 notes - posted 3 weeks ago - reblog

weareallstarstuff:

Ghost Nebula

Theme pacifico by Max Davis.

>