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It’s everything I’ve always dreamed it would be.

n-a-s-a:

The Big Dipper
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo

Arousal.

space-pics:

Size of sun seen from the different planets
http://space-pics.tumblr.com/

Neptune’s all “Sun? I have no sun.”

MAYBE I WILL.

“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.”
A moment of Saganistic reflection.

jtotheizzoe:

I Shall Call Him Mini-Moon
Our planet’s proper-noun Moon, the one we call Luna, has been hanging out around Earth for about 4 billion years. A new simulation says that at any moment, Luna is not alone.
University of Helsinki researchers used a massive supercomputer to simulate 10 million tiny asteroids, just a few feet across, passing Earth. Between the gravitational pull of the Sun, Moon and Earth, tens of thousand were captured. As a result of these calculations, which would have taken your home computer six years, they estimate that at any moment Earth is joined by at least one “mini-moon”.
These tiny asteroids can orbit for years, undetected, before being pulled back into a path around the Sun. If we could capture one, imagine what we could discover about the early Solar System!
(via NASA Lunar Science Institute)

Back to space and stuff.

discoverynews:

Asteroid Hunters Stalk 2005 YU55 — LIVE from Keck Observatory, Hawaii
At 6:38 p.m. ET on Tuesday, a 400-meter wide asteroid made its closest approach to Earth, passing below the orbit of the moon. Although asteroid 2005 YU55 came no closer than 201,000 miles from our atmosphere, this is the largest near-Earth object on record to come so close to our planet.
As the asteroid glides away peacefully, continuing its orbit around the sun, Keck Observatory astronomers will continue to track the object, streaming the event live from the Keck II Remote Operations room in Kamuela, Hawaii. The feed — shown below — will go live at 7 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time (9 p.m. PST, midnight EST).
LIVE FEED

And I didn’t even feel anything! …We must’ve all died and are now in some sort of afterlife.

fuckyeahnebulas:

Bubble Nebula

itsfullofstars:

The 400-yard-wide asteroid is called 2005 YU55 and at the point of closest approach it will graze our planet at 201,700 miles — about 10 percent closer to Earth than the Moon’s typical orbit.

People are overreacting about this whole asteroid thing. That’s not even close…(in a sarcastic kind of way, because in the cosmological scheme of things that’s like…in our living room…)