“Every One Of Us Is, In The Cosmic Perspective, Precious. If A Human Disagrees With You, Let Them Live.

Andromeda, Our Sister Galaxy

Infrared Saturn Clouds via NASA http://ift.tt/2b5OdPE

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A HD Sweep Of Pluto!

Click on the image above to see a HD sweep of the surface of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft! This is a short post made to accompany my other Pluto post here!

Credits: NASA/New Horizons/Jhu

TODAY IN HISTORY: On July 31, 1971, moonwalker Jim Irwin works at the lunar rover the first EVA of the Apollo 15 mission. In the background is Mount Hadley. Photo by Dave Scott. (NASA)

Northern lights over Nyrölä, Finland. My cousin called me last night and said “There’s no clouds over the Central Finland and it’s very dark.”. And so we drove at midnight 30 miles out of the city to get these photographs. It was magical. -Eero

The Department of Awesome Natural Phenomena has features amazing auroras before, but never an aurora on another planet! This extraordinary sight, brought to us by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is an incredibly colossal aurora taking place on Jupiter:

“At the gas giant’s north pole, the most powerful and luminous northern lights in the solar system shimmer and glow in an endless geomagnetic storm that’s larger than our entire planet.”

That’s right, Jupiter itself is already so awesomely huge that its auroras are larger than the planet Earth.

Watch this time-lapse video of the Jupiter auroras and then visit the Hubble website to learn more about this amazing phenomena.

[via Twisted Sifter and Gizmodo]

Uranus’ icy moon Miranda wowed scientists during the Voyager encounter with its dramatically fractured landscapes.

via reddit

VdB 141 Region Nebulosity by Jeffrey Weiss on Flickr.