Milky Way

Picture I took of the milky way while in New Mexico. Straight up on my D3000 with a tripod

I wish I could live somewhere with a view like this.

Falling asleep most nights with the stars above and the cool air coming in through the open window. Sure is a fun way to live.

The stunning Sombrero galaxy (seriously, there should be a blog that’s just photos of the Sombrero galaxy)

I believe in aliens but not like in the conspiracy theorist sense more like in the “the notion that in this infinitely-huge universe our planet is the only one with life on it is fucking absurd” sense

Chemical flames.

Hubble Sees a Galactic Sunflower : The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower.

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Coppery reds of upcoming lunar eclipse may be accented with turquoise

Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2014 Next Wednesday, Oct. 8, the full moon will turn a coppery red as a lunar eclipse becomes visible across the entirety of the United States. “It promises to be a stunning sight, even from the most light polluted cities,” Fred Espenak, NASA’s resident eclipse expert, said in a recent press release. “I encourage everyone, especially families with curious children, to go out and enjoy the ev Full article

30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula, is the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood. The nebula resides 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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#Space: Arp 256, a stunning system of 2 #spiral #galaxies in early stage of #merging http://ift.tt/1CMu20M via @esa