Weather Satellite Images From 36,000 Km Above Ground Caught The #Tianjin Explosion As It Happened.

Omg, my stomach contents are not sitting quietly 😵 "Cliff jumping world record - POV Height- 58.8m or 192.9 ft Top Speed- 123km/h or 76 mph Pool Depth- 8m or 26 ft Hang Time- 3.58 seconds"

Beautiful island universe Messier 94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant. A popular target for earth-based astronomers, the face-on spiral galaxy is about 30,000 light-years across, with spiral arms sweeping through the outskirts of its broad disk. But this Hubble field of view spans about 7,000 light-years or so across M94’s central region. The sharp close-up examines the galaxy’s compact, bright nucleus and prominent inner dust lanes, surrounded by a remarkable bluish ring of young, massive stars. The massive stars in the ring are all likely less than 10 million years old, indicating the galaxy experienced  a well-defined era of rapid star formation. As a result, while the small, bright nucleus is typical of the Seyfert class of active galaxies, M94 is also known as a starburst galaxy. Because M94 is relatively nearby, astronomers can explore in detail reasons for the galaxy’s burst of star formation.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA

The dragon over #Gringotts ~ #DiagonAlley ~ #HarryPotter ~ Universal Orlando

Cute!

COPY CAT! (w/ AaronsAnimals)

The dark area is our Moon’s shadow on Earth during a solar eclipse. SpaceVine by NASA Astronaut Don Pettit.

April 2, 2015.

Credit: NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman’s Vine Account

Air New Zealand made a flight safety video that was a gigantic ode to Men In Black, complete with aliens, Frank the Dog and Zed.

(25 Aug. 1965) — Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. inside the Gemini-5 spacecraft as it orbited Earth. Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. took this photograph.

Oh, snap ~ that must be good for a fracture or two, feel bad for him.