Well You're Not Wrong

“The more I look at Earth, and certain parts of Earth, the more I feel like an environmentalist. It’s just a blanket of pollution in certain areas. We can fix that if we put our minds to it.“

-Astronaut Scott Kelly, whose one year long mission in space ended today (01/03/2016)

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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This is incredible!

These colors are amazing!

Aja Apa-Soura van gogh never saw golden gate van gogh never saw the great wall van gogh never saw christ the redeemer van gogh never saw stonehenge van gogh never saw eiffel van gogh never saw mount fuji van gogh never saw hollywood van gogh never saw taj mahal

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Hickson 91 in Piscis Austrinus by Johannes Schedler 

NGC 660, an example of the unusually shaped polar ring galaxies. These galaxies are likely to form their structures following violent interactions with other passing galaxies.

Jupiters Great Red Spot is likely a sunburn, not a blush. New science from NASAs Cassini Mission to Saturn based on lab and flyby data.

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The star cluster Westerlund 2

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