Some Of My Favourite Absolutely SICK Facts About The Trappist-1 Exoplanets: - Theyre All Very Close To

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Neptune and its moons (Proteus, Larissa, Despina and Galatea) 

Credit: NASA / Hubble (infrared)

the astronomy students

drawing your own star charts

staying up late to watch a meteor shower

constellations painted on your ceiling

tracking the planets, noting their paths in a pocket-sized journal

an old wool scarf wrapped around your neck to keep out the cold

marveling over photographs of distant galaxies

retelling the stories of Orion and Cassiopeia

the glittering expanse of a cloudless night sky

moonlight shining through gauzy curtains

driving somewhere remote to see the milky way, far from the light pollution of the city

looking for your place in the cosmos

finding comfort in the vastness of the universe, in your own comparative insignificance

a model of the solar system resting on your desk

old sci-fi novels with battered covers

studying the contributions of Copernicus and Al-Battani and Kepler

watching the moon wax and wane

your favorite blanket wrapped around your shoulders

maps of the constellations, illustrated with figures from the associated myths

wondering about life on other worlds

memorizing the constellations, noting how their positions move as the seasons change

a thermos of hot tea

stargazing with friends, gazing up and watching for shooting stars

learning the physics of stars and planets

a fascination with the unknown

Planet Earth, April 16, 1972, as seen from the Apollo 16 spacecraft as it journeyed toward the Moon. (NASA)

NGC 602: Stars vs Pillars © JWST/Hubble

quantum stuff is so freaky to me. I hate hearing about it. it feels like we have gotten down to the level of reality where god didn't think we would actually make it this far and didn't bother to finish tidying everything up.

The second week of Lucky Martian Month is here!

This week’s entry: Surface of Mars

http://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html

http://www.universetoday.com/14885/mars-surface/

http://www.space.com/16895-what-is-mars-made-of.html

who was the fool who was tasked with naming the galaxy and the only adjective they could think of was ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmilky…’

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