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Rainer Maria Rilke, from Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose; "An Experience,"

Titan's high-level haze taken by Cassini on October 12, 2010.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. Edited by J. Major.

Vibrant Virgo Cluster Galaxy NGC 4654 by NASA Hubble

Hubble Classic: Stars, Galaxies and Nebulae

Comet Nishimura l Michael Jäger

Two spiral galaxies, NGC 6040 and NGC 6039, are merging together at the right side of this Hubble image. NGC 6039 is seen face-on and is circular in shape. NGC 6040 seems to lie in front of the first one. In the lower-left corner, cut off by the frame, the elliptical galaxy NGC 6041 — a central member of the galaxy cluster that Arp 122 resides in — appears as light radiating from a point. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and infrared regions

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

Glorious Neptune, observed by Voyager 2 on August 24, 1989.

(NASA/Kevin Gill)

Galactic center of Milky Way © cosmic_background