NGC 6744, Great Spiral

Who’s the tallest man alive?

Me with my patented Sky Boots

they removed posting from tumblr. now there's only scrolling down through the vast blank expanse. great

ii think there should be more about the space part of The Vast. itd be so fun

vast avatar who works at the UKSA and has made crazy discoveries about space that realistically Shouldn't be possible with current technology

Maybe a worker occasionally disappears for a little while and comes back Absolutely Terrified For Their Life and for some reason everyones pretty sure it's the avatar's fault but they've made the craziest discoveries and it'd be a huge loss to fire them so nobody says anything

Go grandpa!!

"hey guys hey guys you know what would be funny? Hey guys guess what " *maniacal giggling*

and the universe said you are the daylight;

and the universe said you are the night;

(minecraft end credits poem, my betrothed)

This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope image data. It is a panoramic view of our neighboring spiral Andromeda Galaxy. It consists of 600 overlapping frames assembled from observations made from July 2010 to December 2022. A cropped version of the mosaic, which is shown above, partially covers Andromeda's core and inner spiral arms. Also known as M31, the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away, making it the closest large spiral galaxy to our own. Hubble's comprehensive, detailed data set extending across the Andromeda Galaxy will allow astronomers to make an unprecedented exploration of the mysteries of spiral galaxy structure and evolution.

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, Hubble Mission, B. F. Williams (Univ Washington), Z. Chen (Univ Washington), L. C. Johnson (Northwestern), Processing; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Hubble Space Telescope

look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons